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C8_006590 Chiesman’s Paris House Roll of Honour

Item Reference: 006590
Category: First World War
Format: Artefact
Description: An oversize decorative board giving a roll of honour of Paris House, Chiesman’s buildings in Lewisham High Street. Paper roll with ink lettering in a large wood frame, glass fronted. Giving the names of those who served in chronological order with rank, unit, and decorations, and also whether wounded or killed. Bottom right hand corner features photographs of ten of those who died surrounded by patriotic cartoons.
Date: 1920s
Further Information: Cecil Stuart (C.S.) Chiesman, here a Captain, features in a later photo of the Second World War in our collection, then a Major commading the 5th Kent Battalion Home Guard.
Links: Long & Lazy Lewisham has written an extensive piece on this item, as well as another piece on recruitment efforts in and around the store. See also the Lewisham War Memorials entry.

Paris House Roll of Honour Board — C8_006590_1

Box D21

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Photographic guillotine cutter — D21_006877

D21_001777 Mazda Flash Bulbs

Item Reference: 001777
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Mazda Flash Bulbs, pack of six, in original box
Date: c1950s
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D21_001778 Metal Tripod

Item Reference: 001778
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Grey metal tripod with extendable legs
Date: 1960s
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D21_001779 Ball and Socket Joint

Item Reference: 001779
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Ball and Socket joint, probably used to fix a camera to accessory to a tripod
Date: 1950s
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D21_001781 2x Johnson Flash Exposure Calculators

Item Reference: 001781
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Two flash and exposure calculators to aid personal photography
Date: c. 1940s
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D21_001785 Folding Coronet Camera

Item Reference: 001785
Category: Photography
Format: Camera
Description: A compact, folding billowed camera designed by The Coronet Camera Co. Birmingham
Date: 1930s
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D21_001791 3x Camera Cases

Item Reference: 001791
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Three empty camera cases. One brown leather with lockable catch, one brown leather with press-stud catch, one brown canvas with press-stud catch
Date: c1940s
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D21_001792 Souvenir China Camera

Item Reference: 001792
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Souvenir made of china in the shape of a billowed camera. Bears the coat of arms and title ‘Paignton’, a coastal town in Devon.
Date: c. 1910s
Further Information: As of 1947, this variation is no longer Paignton’s coat of arms, though it was in use from at least 1905. Other identical sculptures exist, though with different crests (such as Skegness), suggesting the were mass-produced trinkets. Potentially, it was produced by Keele Street, in North Staffordshire, which became known for creating crested porcelain and china upon the outbreak of the First World War.
Links: A look into Keele Street .

D21_001793 Darkroom Photo Cutter

Item Reference: 001793
Category: Photography
Format: Artefact
Description: Wooden guillotine for measuring and cutting photographs in a darkroom. Features a partially destroyed emblem for The Adhesive Dry Mounting Company Limited. Potentially their patented ‘Trimmerrett’.
Date: c. 1940s
Further Information: The obscured location on the emblem is Stamford Street, SE1, a street in south London (Lambeth/Southwark). Interestingly, Adhesive Dry Mounting Co. Ltd. first registered their company as operating from 27-28 Fetter Lane EC4, in Farringdon, in 1903. It was the Fetter Lane address that was represented on their products until at least the 1930s.
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