Longstaff & Pitcher (1875-1900)
Longstaff & Pitcher
London; bedroom furniture, deal furniture and wholesale furniture makers (fl.1875-1900)
Longstaff & Pitcher’s speciality was bedroom furniture produced in Early English, Medieval, Pompeian, Italian, Assyrian, Greek & Gothic styles [The Furniture Gazette, 2 October 1875]. Their furniture was simply polished, varnished, stained, ebonised or opalized.
The partnership was listed at 22 & 22a Frederick Street in The Furniture Gazette Directory, 1876 & 1877. They advertised their bedroom furniture in mahogany, black walnut, ash, pitch pine, pine, enamelled, japanned & decorated [The Furniture Gazette, 8 January 1881] and continued to advertise in this publication until at least 1883. For example: an advertisement for a town traveller used to working with the trade, on salary and commission [The Furniture Gazette, 19 July 1879]; A bedroom suite bought from Longstaff & Pitcher by Barnett Moss & Co. (illustrated below):

Published in The Furniture Gazette, 22 January 1881, p. 191. Following a communication from Longstaff & Pitcher, the publishers issued an apology regarding the attribution to Barnett Moss & Co., who purported that they had ‘manufactured’ the piece [The Furniture Gazette, 29 January 1881].
The Furniture Gazette: Classified List of the Furniture, Upholstery, and Allied Trades (1886) recorded Longstaff & Pitcher at 22 Frederick Street, Hampstead Road, as wholesale cabinet makers & manufacturers of japanned furniture. Other address given at this time were 52 William Street, Hampstead Road and 11, 12 & 13 Clarence Gardens, London.
In 1893 it was announced that Longstaff & Pitcher were expanding from only bedroom furniture to the "production of artistic fitments...and cosy corners" [Cabinet Maker & Art Furnisher, March 1893].
The firm was listed as suppliers of two different ranges of bedroom furniture suites to Heal’s in 1900.
Source: Heal, Sir Ambrose Heal and the Heal Cabinet Factory 1897-1939 (2014).