Hale & Son (c. 1714-1914)
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Hale & Son auction house was established around 1714 at 10 Fenchurch Avenue, London. It specialised in goods imported from the colonies, such as ostrich feathers, ivory, rubber, gums and spices, and auctioned a collection of ivory and brass objects from the British Military Campaign on Benin in 1897 at a public sale on 18 August 1897 (Hale & Son, 1897[226]; Stein, 2008, p. 65[227]). One of... Read more
Hale & Son auction house was established around 1714 at 10 Fenchurch Avenue, London. It specialised in goods imported from the colonies, such as ostrich feathers, ivory, rubber, gums and spices, and auctioned a collection of ivory and brass objects from the British Military Campaign on Benin in 1897 at a public sale on 18 August 1897 (Hale & Son, 1897; Stein, 2008, p. 65).
One of the first sales, this also appears to have been the only major sale of Benin art organised by this auction house. The objects came from one or several members of the colonial expedition. The Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin, was the main buyer, but the British Museum, London, also purchased one piece known to have been looted by George William Neville.
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