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Self, Herbert Henry (1898)

Self, Herbert Henry

Percy Street & 49 Wilson Street, London; bamboo furniture manufacturer (fl.1898)

Self produced a large quantity of standard items, bedroom suites, hall stands, cabinets etc., and smaller pieces including shaving cupboards, in bamboo. A relative remembered the odd-job man of the firm being employed to fetch empty bacon boxes for use as the carcase of bamboo furniture and that the firm produced a special Boer War item, a group of painted tiles framed in bamboo illustrating five of the British military leaders.

Source: Walkling, Antique Bamboo Furniture (1979).