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Antique De Grave, Short, & Fanner Portable Gold/Apothecary Scales c.1850. Scales have no issues, box is missing one side and could use some glue. De Grave, Short and Fanner of 59 St. Martin's-le-Grand Previously De Grave, Short and Co 1845 presumably William Fanner joined and the firm became De Grave, Short and Fanner[1] By 1851 William Fanner, scale maker, was living at 59 St Martins with his family[2] 1851 De Grave, Short and Fanner exhibited at the Great Exhibition 1857 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Samuel Robinson Shortand William Fanner, lately carrying on business as Scale Makers, under the style or firm of De Grave, Short, and Fanner, at No. 59, Saint Martin's-Le-Grand, in the city of London, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent; and all debts due to or from the said late copartnership will be respectively received and paid by the said Samuel Robinson Short, by whom alone the said business will in future be carried on...'[3] 1863 Mention in bankruptcy proceedings of 'Samuel Robinson Short, of the firm of Degraves, Short, and Farmer, of St. Martin's-le-Grand, in the said city of London, Scale Manufacturers'[4] 1871 William Fanner died. From 1871 onwards the company was De Grave, Short and Co. Tw62
