Key, Hoskins & Sewell; Hoskins & Sewell (1871-1886)
Key, Hoskins & Sewell; Hoskins & Sewell
London and Birmingham, Warwickshire; bedstead manufacturers and retailers (fl.1871-1886)
Listed at 2 South Place, Finsbury & 50 Eagle Wharf Road, with works at Bordesley, Birmingham and a warehouse at Welling Place, Liverpool Road, London.
Recorded as Key, Hoskins & Sewell [1871 Post Office Directory] and as Hoskins & Sewell in The Furniture Gazette: Classified List of the Furniture, Upholstery, and Allied Trades (1886).
Hoskins & Sewell were awarded a 1st class award for their metallic bedsteads at the Melbourne Exhibition, 1880 (The Furniture Gazette, 9 & 23 April 1881).
When Maple & Co. was awarded a contract to furnish the Hotel Metropole in Northumberland Avenue, London in early 1885, the bedstead manufacture was subcontracted Hoskins & Sewell [The Furniture Gazette, 1 April 1885].
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