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J.A.Reynolds & Co Ltd Colmore row

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Having a "potter" in antique shop this morning and I noticed a telescope with this label in the lid of the box, I read the date to be 1989. Two addresses Colmore Row and Church Lane Aston.
 

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Having a "potter" in antique shop this morning and I noticed a telescope with this label in the lid of the box, I read the date to be 1989. Two addresses Colmore Row and Church Lane Aston.
https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/J._A._Reynolds_and_Co
I think the date was much earlier! Maybe 1889?


 
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1893 Reynolds James Alfred & Co. manufacturers & importers of drawing materials, 43 Colmore Row
1895 J.A.Reynolds & Co Ltd, manufacturers and importers of drawing instruments , 43 Colmore Row
1897 -1900 J.A.Reynolds & Co Ltd , manufacturers of drawing and surveying instruments , 43 Colmore Row
1903-1915 Reynolds J. A. & Co. Ltd. manufacturers of drawing & surveying instruments, 43 Colmore row; works, 44 & 45 Suffolk street
1921 Reynolds J. A. & Co. Ltd. manufacturers of drawing & surveying instruments, Stuart House, Edmund Street.

No mention of Church Lane, but not all sites are always included in Kellys. But it would be when they produced surveying instruments. so
after1895 and before 1921
 
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