Here is a summary of a selection of press cuttings about this business. The business probably started in 1807. There's a discussion about the premises occupied by the Price family in posts #109 to #120 here
Great Hampton Street
1818 Joseph Price advertises for two lapidaries (person who cuts, polishes, or engraves gems) at Great Hampton Street
1820 Joseph Price of Great Hampton Street loses a black pony
55 Great Hampton Street and Bull Street
1832 premises in #55 Great Hampton Street as well as at Bull Street where the premises had just been altered
1833 J Price manufacturer of jewellery and silversmith, in Great Hampton Street and Bull Street.
1843 sale of the #55 Great Hampton Street residence, and business premises including workshops and warehousing
#86 Great Hampton Street
1862 Joseph Price & # Sons advertising in Scotland for Scotch pearls. By this time had been in business for 55 years (so started c1807)
1862 Jos Price & Sons advertising for pearl handle cutters and workers
1864 dissolution of the partnership between precious stones merchants Jos Price snr, Jos Price jnr and James Price (removing James Price)
1865 Joseph Price gets hot under the collar about snow !1879 Jos Price & Sons at #86, but James Price now with Hatton Garden address and listed as a diamond merchant
1889 sold at the direction of the executors of the late Joseph Price. Auction included jewellery and precious stone stock as well as domestic house contents. The house contents included valuable paintings purchased c1840s
Great Hampton Street
From the English Heritage publication: The Jewellery Quarter (Cattell and Hawkins). It shows the rear of the houses and their restored workshops at #69 and #70 which might have similarities with those at #85 and #86. This dates the houses as 1830. Presumably the refurbishment below is the...
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Great Hampton Street
1818 Joseph Price advertises for two lapidaries (person who cuts, polishes, or engraves gems) at Great Hampton Street
1820 Joseph Price of Great Hampton Street loses a black pony
55 Great Hampton Street and Bull Street
1832 premises in #55 Great Hampton Street as well as at Bull Street where the premises had just been altered
1833 J Price manufacturer of jewellery and silversmith, in Great Hampton Street and Bull Street.
1843 sale of the #55 Great Hampton Street residence, and business premises including workshops and warehousing
#86 Great Hampton Street
1862 Joseph Price & # Sons advertising in Scotland for Scotch pearls. By this time had been in business for 55 years (so started c1807)
1862 Jos Price & Sons advertising for pearl handle cutters and workers
1864 dissolution of the partnership between precious stones merchants Jos Price snr, Jos Price jnr and James Price (removing James Price)
1865 Joseph Price gets hot under the collar about snow !1879 Jos Price & Sons at #86, but James Price now with Hatton Garden address and listed as a diamond merchant
1889 sold at the direction of the executors of the late Joseph Price. Auction included jewellery and precious stone stock as well as domestic house contents. The house contents included valuable paintings purchased c1840s
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