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Mackinder, George (1739-44)

Mackinder, George, King St, Golden Sq., London, carpenter and cm (1739–44). Provided the Duke of Gordon with items for his London house in 1739, totalling £3 13s 6d and including ‘A Fine Mahogany pillar & claw table’. His bill of 26 April 1739 included ‘A Fine Mahog. Teabox wth an inside Spring Drawer’, ‘A Fine Wood Voider’, a tray, a small inlaid salver and ‘2 Bottle Dishes’, totalling £2 12s 6d. [Scottish RO, GD 44/51/465 and 465/4/28] Declared bankrupt, London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 5 March 1744. Sale of household goods, furniture, ‘Pictures by many eminent Masters, and all his Stock in Trade, consisting of fine Mahogany and Walnut-Tree Planks and Veneers, Cherry-Tree, Beech, etc….’, announced in Daily Advertiser, 19 March 1744. Notice regarding payment of debts to Mackinder appeared in the same paper on 28 April 1744.

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