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Burnell, C. & Fox, John

Burnell, C. & Fox, John, London, cm, upholders, appraisers and undertakers, successors to William Lamb (1809–25). Trading at 9–10 Jewin St, Cripplegate, 1809–19; and 46–47 Newgate St, 1820–25. Supplied John Gibbard of Sharnbrook, near Bedford, in 1817 with ‘a set of cotton 4-post bed furniture with full inside and outside valances lined all through and turned over in drab calico and full bias; together with other cotton furnishings, French fringes etc.’, costing £14 16s 4d. In 1818 he provided ‘a pair of mahogany pole fire screens, with round corner mounts covered with green silk fluted in front with balance lead weights covered’, costing £3 10s; and ‘Twelve new large elbow chair cushion covers lined with white calico bordered with chintz’, at £5 2s. [D; Bedford Office, London]

The original entry from Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840 can be found at British History Online.