Stevens Auction Rooms

Career Dealer

Biography Natural history and 'curiosities' auctioneers. Founded when John Crace Stevens became a partner of a long-established Covent Garden-based auction house in 1831. The company changed its names to J.C. Stevens in 1834 and retained that even after his death in 1859. The business closed in the 1940s [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 04/05/2007]

Biography References http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/articleHL/56431

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Relationship Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic EthnographyArchaeology

Dates active 1831-1940s

Donated around 1897-1939

English collections Musical instruments, stone tools, fire-making tools, lighter, gunflint, firearms, tools, combs, spindle whorls, fish-hooks, weights, weapons, tally sticks, fire bucket, marlingspike, hour-glass, band-weaving machine

Institution Yes

Oxford based No

English collection size 595

Connections Henry Balfour / Oscar Charles Raphael / Wellcome Historical Medical Museum / Sydney Gerald Hewlett / Henry C. Collyer / Edward Bidwell / Struan Robertson / Duncan Woodroffe / Charles Lund / Lord Herschell / Edward Lovett / George Fabian Lawrence