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Raffety & Son (1877-1887)

Raffety & Son

11 High Street, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire and 2 Wood Street, London; cabinet makers and chair & couch manufacturers (fl.1877-87)

Raffety & Son advertised various staff vacancies in The Furniture Gazette in 1877 including a cabinet maker, a junior assistant, a clerk, and a good needlewoman upholsterer [21 April;  2 June 1877]. They also had an advertisement published for their new ‘Patent Safety’ chair & garden perambulator in The Furniture Gazette, 10 May 1879. The firm displayed ‘a combined chair and perambulator’ at the Furniture Exhibition, Islington, 1881 and exhibited at the 3rd Furniture Exhibition 1883 [The Furniture Gazette, 13 August 1881 and 31 March & 28 April 1883].  

Raffety & Son was listed as cabinet makers and chair & couch manufacturers in The Furniture Gazette: Classified List of the Furniture, Upholstery, and Allied Trades (1886). 

In 1887 the firm sold their stock of furniture and continued trading in the auction and valuation business [The Furniture Gazette, 1 December 1887].  Hamnett, Raffety & Co. were the auctioneers of the contents of Mentmore Towers in 1977, and is still trading as estate agents as Raffety Buckland & Co., in in the area.