| Name | Jaques |
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| Brief Description | At 102 Hatton Garden, London. Major makers throughout the 19th century, still trading (2023). |
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| Principal Maker | Y |
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| Link to AGPI record | AGPI Publisher |
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| Copyright Registrations in this name | 47 |
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| Other Registrations | 102 registrations |
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| Adverts | 189 adverts |
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| Examples | 420 examples |
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| The Ivory and hardwood turning business taken over by Thomas Jaques at the end of the eighteenth century and subsequently run by Thomas and John came to real prominence with the success of the chessmen pattern introduced in 1849 bearing the name of the champion Howard Staunton. This enabled the firm to aim their products at the highest end of the market. They subsequently became leading producers of Croquet and Table Tennis (“Ping Pong”) equipment.
Early games by T Jaques were usually anonymous, including a series of turned whitewood boards. Rules for one board survive at Bodleian.
From 1849 J Jaques was making Staunton chess and many high quality indoor games and puzzles as well as other tunbridgeware and ivory and hardwood items, as can be seen from the examples in this database.
17 April 1899 Limited Company registered
30 Sept 1910 Registered Office changed to 16/17 Kirby St. (at the rear of the Hatton Garden premises)
1913 address 20/21 Kirby St. used (see Croquet Rules 1913). From this time it was the usual address.
15/21 Kirby St. used on Electrical All Star Derby
27 June 1933 Registered Office changed to 37 Kirby St, (on 6 August 1934 37/39 Kirby St. used).
Many items are recorded in the remains of a pattern book which is all the firm has after a bomb destroyed the Hatton Garden/Kirby St. premises c1941. This book is assumed to have been assembled over a period. Smaller items are often actual size, to guide production.
6 June 1941 Registered Office changed to Whiteheather Works, 361 Whitehorse Road, Thornton Heath
Book publications include works on Barrule or Eccentric Cribbage, Varique a new card game, Reversi Handbook, Croquet, and Mah Jongg.
The website of Michael Thomson has additional information. |