m c sutton (2 résultats)

25 cloth samples, mounted on stiff card, loosely inserted in contemporary folder: green cloth-backed red paper boards, ornate paper label pasted to upper board, lettered in gilt:' M / E M S / 887 / 144 POS'. Extremities rubbed. Samples lightly dust-soiled, pencilled note to verso of upper board: '25 cloth samples / Ezra M. Sutton / Cairo'. Details pertaining to the dealings of Ezra M. Sutton are scant beyond a notice in the London Gazette (18th, November, 1910) stating that the partnership of 'Ezra Murad Sutton, Ezra Ibrahim Shalom, Maurice Altaras, and Moise Daniel de Picciotto' has dissolved. It would appear the group, styled simply 'merchants', operated under the name Ezra M. Sutton and Co. in Cairo, and Picciotto, Shallom and Co. in Manchester.

Five sample book with 109 cloth samples: 2 at 260 x 190 mm. containing 11 loose samples mounted on printed card [the green folder], and 51 samples [the red folder]; together with three smaller examples, each 175 x 125 mm. and containing 11, 11 and 25 samples mounted on card and displayed concertina style within a cloth wrap-around cover. Each album marked M.EMS followed by reference numbers which probably refer to thread count or density. Ezra Murad Sutton was active at the latter part of the 19th and early 20th century, for at least part of this period in partnership with M. D. de Picciotto, Maurice Altaras and Ezra I. Shalom, trading from Manchester as Picciotto, Shalom and Co. and in Cairo under his own name. By 1910 the partnership had been dissolved, Sutton acquiring all the property and assets from when he continued trading under his own name only. Egyptian cotton has long been recognised as of the highest quality owing its reputation to the climate of the Nile valley which produces long fibres allowing finer threads which can create a higher thread count and a softer and more luxurious feel.