Scott, T. R. & Co. (1873-1967)
Scott, Thomas R. & Co.
32 & 33 Upper Abbey Street, Dublin, Ireland; wholesale cabinet makers, patent parquet flooring manufacturers (fl.1873-1967)
Advertisements in the twentieth century record the establishment of the business as 1873.
Thomas R. Scott & Co. was purportedly one of the largest workshops at the time in the city, when it exhibited at the 1882 Dublin Exhibition. Their display included a very fine bedroom suite, the wardrobe of walnut with a toilet table and dressing stand ensuite, for which the firm was awarded a first prize Exhibition medal [The Furniture Gazette, 27 January & 29 September 1883].
Scott also participated in the Cork Industrial Exhibition, 1883, with economical domestic furniture, a 6ft mahogany sideboard with American walnut panels and a bedroom suite, and at the Irish Artisans’ Exhibition, Dublin, 1885 displaying a range of their 'art furniture'. This included one of their cylinder fall secretaries made from St. Domingo mahogany, for which their workman, John Whitty, was awarded a silver & bronze medal. Also a handsome wardrobe and dressing table exhibit, made by George Warnock, Sheraton style ladies writing table of the same mahogany inlaid with satinwood, made by T. Ryan. Patrick Sweeny & Thomas Branigan were the makers of a fumigated oak sideboard and Miss Irwin the decorator of a pair of hand painted mirrors. All the exhibited items were designed by Thomas R. Scott, the principal partner of the firm [The Furniture Gazette, 16 September 1882; 1 December 1885].
Thomas R. Scott & Co. were the makers of the library tables for the new Free Library, Capel Street, Dublin in 1884 [The Furniture Gazette, 18 October 1884]
The firm was listed in The Furniture Gazette: Classified List of the Furniture, Upholstery, and Allied Trades (1886).
T.R. Scott recorded as the Hon. Secretary, Dublin Cabinet Trades' Associations in Dublin Directories, 1910-13. Directories of 1919 and 1927 list the firm at 33 Upper Abbey Street, Dublin. At the latter date it was advertising woodwork and office furniture made to order, and as church and school furnishers.
The Irish Times, 21 April 1967, announced that the firm's premises at Great Strand Street and sales at Trinity Street would be closed for the day as a mark of respect to the late Thomas R. Scott.