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Edwardian craze for what are now known as gadget or system canes and umbrellas, with concealed pencils, atomizers and other trickery. The silversmith
Charles Henry Dumenil was a leading exponent of such gadgetry as well as being a major supplier of mounts to the firm. Among other silversmiths providing mounts were Charles Cooke of Frith Street, Soho, James Damant of City Road and Thomas Johnson.
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of 16 April 1943 ran as follows: "SWAINE and ADENEY and THOS. BRIGG and SONS have amalgamated in order to conform to the
Government's suggestion. They will do their utmost to maintain the reputation for quality for which both firms have been famous for so long. They are now trading as SWAINE, ADENEY,
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For day wear walking sticks were lightweight and in wood, bamboo or cane with handles ranging from the discreet to the frivolous, with animal heads being popular. The style and workmanship of some handles suggest that the
Czilinsky family of ivory and wood carvers may well have taken commissions from
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magazine was talking about the "umbrella of appeasement". Hitler, resentful of those who attended the Munich conference, poured scorn on what he called "umbrella politicians". It was a sad irony that war should break out only months after
Chamberlain had tried to avert it and that soon afterwards, in
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From relatively early on, Brigg chose to go down the route of individualized umbrella production, buying in the frame components from Fox
Umbrella Frames Ltd, but using its own shafts, handles, ferrules, sliders and rib tips, not to mention covers. The firm was quick to complement its umbrella range
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For evening wear sticks might be of ebonized hardwoods or of exotic material such as tortoiseshell, while the knops might be in gold, crystal or set with jewels. Luxury handles for sticks were commissioned from silversmiths, wood and ivory carvers and turners. Brigg joined in the late
Victorian and
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By 1852 the firm was trading as Thomas Brigg & Son, reflecting the fact that Thomas's son Edward had joined the family business. When Edward's brother (another Thomas) went into partnership with him, the firm began trading as Thomas Brigg & Sons. The 1861 census listed Thomas Brigg as an
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Bankruptcy Commissioners in 1829 but it appears that the creditors were placated, for he and his father were able to carry on trading.
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BRIGG and SONS, LTD., at 185, Piccadilly, W.1." The agreement between the two firms had been signed on 9 February 1943 (see Prior, pp. 92 and 96). Bertie Brigg later served briefly as chairman of the merged firms after Edward Swaine Adeney retired in 1949.
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told of his proud but short-lived ownership of a Brigg umbrella, for which he had paid the astonishing price of 35 francs as a young man, only to lose it the next day in the métro.
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