Stone, Samuel, London, cm (1770–93). In 1770 William Tustian of Whitechapel took a booth at the annual Stirbitch Fair held near Cambridge in September. He advertised that he was selling furniture of his own manufacture and also that made by Samuel Stone & Co. In 1782 he was trading from Catherine Wheel Alley, Whitechapel and in that year took out insurance cover of £700 which included £500 for his workshop, utensils and stock. Bankrupt in 1790 but by the following year again trading, now from 127 Hounsditch. Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793. [Furn. Hist., 1978; GL, Sun MS vol. 304, p. 443; vol. 379, p. 132; Bailey's list of bankrupts]