Solomon, Abraham

Gt Queen St, London, furniture broker (fl.1839)

A number of late Georgian pieces of furniture are known with a stamped inscription ‘A. SOLOMON 55 Gt. QUEEN St.’. Some record the address as 59 Gt Queen St. No cabinet maker corresponding to this description can be found in London directories, but an Abraham Soloman was trading at 23 Little Queen St in 1839 as a furniture broker. It is highly likely that furniture so marked passed through his hands and was sold by him as second hand items. [V&A archives; Phillips’, 3 March 1964, lot 96; Sotheby's, 14 November 1975, lot 79; 26 March 1976, lot 90, further examples of furniture bearing his label are illustrated in Gilbert (1996), figs 870-872.

Source: DEFM; Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840 (1996).