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Evans, Benjamin & Company (1881-1900)

Evans, Benjamin & Company

Swansea, Wales; furniture makers (fl.1881-c.1900)

In 1881 Evans refurbished the Unitarian Chapel, Swansea [The Furniture Gazette, 8 October 1881] and supplied furniture to the new offices of the Newport Harbour Commissioners [The Furniture Gazette, 29 October 1881]. 

A large mahogany sideboard bears the ivorene plaque of this maker ‘BEN EVANS & Coy Ltd COMPLETE HOUSE FURNISHERS SWANSEA’ (illus. Bebb, (2007), fig. 1275). 

Source: Bebb, Welsh Furniture (2007), II, p. 232.