Rollin & Feuardent (1867-1953)
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Claude Camille Rollin (1813–1883) was a dealer (himself the son of a merchant) who organized public sales and was an expert in numismatics. He was based at 12 rue Vivienne, Paris. In 1845, Felix Feuardent (1819–1907) moved from Cherbourg to Paris. Rollin joined forces with Feuardent in 1860 under the name ‘Rollin & Feuardent’. They opened a shop in London in 1867 (27 Haymarket, then 10... Read more
Claude Camille Rollin (1813–1883) was a dealer (himself the son of a merchant) who organized public sales and was an expert in numismatics. He was based at 12 rue Vivienne, Paris.
In 1845, Felix Feuardent (1819–1907) moved from Cherbourg to Paris. Rollin joined forces with Feuardent in 1860 under the name ‘Rollin & Feuardent’. They opened a shop in London in 1867 (27 Haymarket, then 10 Bloomsbury Street). After Rollin’s death, Feuardent settled under the name of Feuardent Frères at 4 rue de Louvois, Paris. The business was later run by his sons, Félix Antoine (1872–1937), Georges François (1873–1963) and Claude Robert (1877–1966), until about 1953. (Agorha database; Agorha database; British Museum website).
In the Digital Benin data, the name Rollin & Feuardent is linked to thirty objects from the Kingdom of Benin purchased by the British Museum in 1899 and 1900 (after Rollin’s death, a date when the senior Feuardent was probably too old to be active in the shop), likely from Feuardent’s sons. Most of these came from William Charles Giffard Heneker, member of the British Military Campaign on Benin, who looted them in 1897.
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