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Amyas was born in 1891 in
Hitchin, Hertfordshire to Frederick W. Phillips (1856-1910) and Margaret Sturrock Cable (who died in 1937). His father, Frederick W. Phillips, founded the antique dealership F. W. Phillips in 1884 which operated out of The Manor House in Hitchin, a Grade II* listed Georgian
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Due to the interest in 'period style' furnishings in the early 20th century, some antique dealerships, including
Phillips of Hitchin, started to focus more on older English furniture like that of the Tudor period. At Phillips of Hitchin, this focus also extended to furnishing and architecture, with
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After his brother retired from the antique dealership in 1935, Amyas and his wife Mary took over the business. They renamed the business
Phillips of Hitchin, the name which it continued to operate under until its closure in 2014, when Amyas' son Jerome retired. Phillips of Hitchin has sold antiques
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Soon after Amyas and his elder brother took over the dealership they changed the name from F. W. Phillips to H. & A. Phillips. Amyas went on a business trip to New York early on in his antiques career in 1920, and met many notable interior decorators and antique dealers of the period, like
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from 1710 to 1725. The original intention was to re-build Newton's house elsewhere but this never occurred. A room from Newton's house was eventually reconstructed in the 1930s in The Manor House in
Hitchin, with the
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customers requesting them to furnish their houses in period styles or build them new 'ancient' houses with recycled historic building materials.
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was the architect for this house, entitled "Lane's End" (now the
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