located at 10 Ann street, it is a former sawmill that has attained listed building status and is partly converted to domestic accommodation. 1087 W. McNeilage, victualler, butter and ham dealer. Henry Reid (1770-1833), grocer, tea and spirit dealer, 31 Barrowfield road (now London road), married Margaret Thompson (†July 1844, aged 74) in July 1793; they had six children, of which the youngest, the surgeon William Reid, died in 1883. 1088
Archibald Anderson, provision warehouse proprietor, 105-6 King street. 1089
James Angus, grocer and tea dealer, 38 Trongate. It has been argued that his 1780 farthing, DH 18, should be considered as the earliest 18th century commercial token struck (Andison, TCSB May 2001, p.417). 1090
William Bilton, tobacconist, 630 Argyll street, listed in the 1799 Glasgow Post Office directory. Cubie & Paterson, salters, 1 King street, listed in the 1799 and 1815 directories. Ralph Erskine & Co, grocers and spirit dealers under the sign of ‘The Lemon Tree and Sugar Loaf’, Trongate (Andison, TCSB 6, pp.418-19). 1091
Alexander Ewing, grocer, Hutcheson street, listed in the 1799 directory. Thomas Finlayson, grocer, 68 King street, listed in the 1828 Glasgow Post Office directory. 1092
Alexander Hamilton, tobacconist and snuff shop proprietor, 152 Stockwell street; the business was wound up in January 1858 (LG 15 January 1858, p.220). 1093
George Randolph, tobacconist, King street. E. Waterson & Co, tobacconists, 193 Trongate. 1094-5
Gilbert Shearer & Co, woollen and linen drapers, 19 Trongate, had originally commissioned John Westwood for tokens through Thomas Venables, a Birmingham merchant with Scottish connections, but an intervention by James Watt’s brother-in-law, Gilbert Hamilton, helped Matthew Boulton to win the business in the summer of 1791, The tokens were delivered in two batches in October 1791 and February 1792 (Dykes, 2011, pp.125-6; Doty, CTCJ March 1998, pp.12-17, and Spring 2012, p.27). The second batch included 72 gilt proofs. 1097
Brock & Ferguson, grocers and spirit dealers, Quarry and Loan Foot (Castle street), listed in Pigot’s 1837 directory. William Miller, grocer, tea and spirit dealer, declared bankrupt 1852. 1098
Anderson, Leslie & Co, seedsmen and florists with a shop by the Royal Exchange and a nursery at Broughton Park, proprietor Robert Anderson; in 1798 the nursery stock was acquired by the Edinburgh firm of Dicksons & Shade. Joseph Archibald (†December 1815, aged 72, “after a long and painful illness”), seedsman, listed in Edinburgh directories for 1790 and 1814; the site of his nursery is now known as Archibald place. 1099 W. Begg, merchant, 139 Cowgate, now the Central Hotel. 1100
E. Campbell, tobacconist, 2 St Andrew street; the numbers 79 and 37 appearing on the snuff jars are not street numbers (Thompson, BNJ 1969, p.139). 1101
George Cotton, tobacconist, 12 North Bridge, the business founded in Crosscauseway in 1775 and fl. 1816-25 at 12 North Bridge, appointed tobacconist to William IV, 1834, and to Victoria in 1840. Dickson & McDougal, grocers and tea dealers, 36 South Bridge, the company a short-lived association from
1813-14, resulting from the merger of McDougal & Co, spirit dealers, 72 High street and William Dickson’s tea business at South Bridge (Andison, TCSB 7, p.490). Frederick Doig (1760- 1815), b. Kettins, Angus; grocer, 320 Lawnmarket, fl. 1790- 1815, elected a burgess of the city in August 1812, the business continued by his widow Margaret until at least 1829. Alexander Galloway, grocer and spirit dealer, 107 West row. George Hair, tea and spirit dealer; his token can be dated from directories as being issued c. 1784 (Andison, TCSB 6, p.463). 1102
John Crerar, grocer, tea, wine and spirit dealer, 60 South bridge, from 1825, and Newington place, from 1827-32 (Andison, TCSB 6, p.463 and 7, p.490). 1103
James Douglas, tea and wine merchant, 1 Gilmore place, fl. 1823-8. James Forbes, wine and spirit dealer, 21 Bristo, fl. 1825-7 (Andison, TCSB 6, p.463). 1104
James Glass, dealer in ointments, 15 Blair street, moved to 8 Hunter square in May 1822 (Andison, TCSB 6, p.462). 1105
Henry Harrison (†January 1837), hardware manufacturer, St Leonards. 1106
Robert Havens, wine and spirit merchant, 83 South bridge, took over Robert Sheppard’s tea shop on the premises c. 1810 and fl. there 1811-14 (Andison, TCSB 6, p.458 and 7, pp.488-9). A. Hendrie, grocer, tea and spirit dealer, fl. 1774-95 (Andison, op. cit, p.456). J. Hogg, tea and spirit dealer, Canonmills. John Hunter, tea dealer, 212 Cowgate and 109 High street. 1107-12
Thomas and Alexander Hutchison, merchants, High street; their extensive series of tokens were executed by the Westwood/Hancock consortium. 1113
William Johnstone, tea and spirit dealer, 210 Pleasance. Kirkwood, grocer and spirit dealer, Market street. 1114
James Lewis, grocer, wine and spirit merchant, 177 Canongate and 6 Market street, tokens issued after 1835 (Andison, TCSB 6, p.463). 1115
Charles Macarra, grocer, tea, wine and spirit merchant, 28 Portsburgh. Malcolm McFarlan, grocer and tea dealer, 61 Cathcart street. McFarlane, grocer and tea dealer. R. McLaren, tea and spirit dealer, 29 Elder street. 1116 McQueen & Steel, chandlers, 17 Netherbow. 1117
George Meikle, grocer and spirit dealer, 86 Grassmarket, in business 1813-29. Andrew Melrose (1789-1855), tea and spirit dealer, 301 Canongate, apprenticed to Robert Sheppard (see Lot 1106), opened his first shop in 1812; in 1815 he took over Havens’ premises at 83 South bridge and in December that year was joined in the business by James McLeish, the firm restyled as Andrew Melrose & Co. A third shop was acquired at 122 High street in May 1820 and the business, Melrose Tea, survived well into the 20th century (Andison, TCSB 6, p.458 and 7, p.489). James Mitchell, tobacconist, Canongate. 1118
Colin Moncrieff, grocer, tea, spirit and wine dealer, 497 Lawnmarket, in 1819 Post Office directory. David Morton, grocer and spirit dealer, 96 Nicolson street, in business 1815-16 (Andison, TCSB 6, p.459). D. Nicholson, grocer and spirit dealer, Broughton street, Union place and Prestonholm. Robert Nimmo, grocer, East Market street. A. & J. Paterson, tea and spirit dealers, 10 St James’s square. 1119
John Pollands, grocer and tea dealer, 41 Hanover street and 2
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