Mappin & Webb

Mappin & Webb on Regent Street in London (2011)

Mappin & Webb was founded in 1775 when Jonathan Mappin opened a Sheffield based silver workshop, then as now a major centre of the English silver trade.

History

As a natural progression from silverware, Mappin & Webb created jewels for royal courts across the globe, from the Queen of France Marie-Antoinette, to the Empress of Russia and Princess Grace of Monaco. The brand historically held Royal Warrants to both the Russian Empire and the Japanese Royal Household.

Queen Victoria was the first Monarch to commission Mappin & Webb. Her Majesty’s Golden Jubilee necklace was created by the house in 1888 and was designated by the Monarch as an heirloom of the crown.

Royal Warrant holders since 1897, Mappin & Webb is proud to maintain warrants to both Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales.

The company’s royal connection was further cemented by the appointment of Mappin & Webb’s master craftsman in 2012, to the position of Crown Jeweller. The Crown Jeweller is the custodian of the Crown Jewels and is responsible for preparing them for the State opening of Parliament and other state occasions. The appointment of Mappin & Webb’s craftsman to the role of Crown Jeweller is a great honour.

International development and current day

The first Mappin & Webb store opened in 1860 at 77-78 Oxford Street, London and with this the company’s candelabras, lifestyle, fine silverware and vanity products fast gained renown. The 1890s then spearheaded four decades of expansion for the brand.

Mappin & Webb's first overseas store was established in Johannesburg and stores soon followed in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo, Biarritz, Hong Kong and Shanghai, Cairo and Bombay.

After a brief spell in the Asprey Garrard group, today the company forms part of the retail group Aurum Holdings.^[1] which as been accused of major UK tax avoidance^[2] It continues to produce classic silverware, fine jewellery collections and is a retailer of luxury timepieces. Mappin & Webb boutiques offer timepieces from high end Swiss watch houses, including Rolex, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Patek Philippe and Omega.

The brand also has a strong sporting heritage: it produced the original Ryder Cup and created trophies for the Royal Ascot for 75 years.

Bank branch

The Mappin & Webb building at Bank, pictured in 1993.

A branch of Mappin & Webb^[3] once occupied a prime location in the City of London, at the junction of Poultry and Queen Victoria Street, adjacent to Bank junction, in the City of London. Designed in the neo-gothic style by John Belcher in 1870, the listed building was demolished to make way for the construction of a Postmodern office and retail building – No 1 Poultry – despite a fiercely fought and highly publicised campaign to save the 19th-century building.

References

The Sheffield Knife Book, by G. Tweedale, Hallamshire Press, ISBN 1-874718-11-3

External links

Media related to Mappin & Webb at Wikimedia Commons

Homepage of Mappin & Webb

Companies and former companies based in Sheffield, England (or with a significant presence)

Modern manufacturing and distribution companies	Ancon Clark Wilson Benesch Berkart Henry Boot Bramah Engineering Catterly Laser Cutting Co. Corus Group Davey Markham JF Finnigans Firth Rixson Fletchers Bakery Sheffield Forgemasters Company M J Gleeson Group Plc Hendersons (Sheffield) Ltd Kelham Island Brewery) Land Pyrometers Arnold Laver Northern Foods Outokumpu formerly (Avesta Polarit)^t/o / BSC Stainless^t/o ROM Reinforcement Ronseal Paints SIG plc Tinsley Bridge Wincro Metals

Modern retail and service industry	Atkinsons Stores HSBC Irwin Mitchell John Lewis PlusNet Powerminster Sheffield Hallam University Tuffnells Parcel Express University of Sheffield Williams Fastners WANdisco Zoo Digital

Traditional heavy industry (steel and engineering)	BOC ^t/o British Steel ^t/o British Steel Corporation ^p Brown Bayley Steels Newton, Chambers & Company NCK-Rapier Cammell ^t/o Coopers (Fastners) Chesterfield Cylinders Cravens Daniel Doncasters Ltd Davey McKee^t/o Davey Lowevy^t/o Trafalgar House Engineering ^t/o Edgar Allen & Company ^t/o English Steel Corporationⁿ Firth Brown Steelsⁿ Firth Vickers Laycocks^t/o Samuel Sheffield Forgemasters Thomas Ward Tinsley Wire Industries Ltd (TWIL) ^t/o Sanderson Kayser

Cutlers - silversmiths - surgical instruments	Arthur Price B.Braun-Downs Surgical^t/o Richard Carr (Silversmiths) James Dixon & Co. Durham Duplex Harrison Bros & Howson Hutton Mappin and Webb ^t/o Martin Hall Needham, Veall & Tyzack Joseph Rodgers Swann Morton Surmanco Skidmore Taylors Eye-Witness Ltd Thornton (Impants) Viners^t/o Walker & Hall^t/o Thomas Wostenholm

Tool manufacturers	Dormer (Tools)^r Footprint Tools Henry Taylor Tools Neepsend Stanley Tools (Sheffield)^r Atkinsons (Saws) Easterbrook Allcard & Company G & J Hall Ketona (Shears) Joseph Marples Moore & Wright James Neil (Tools) Niloc Osborne Mushett Paddley & Venables Record Ridgeway Rabone Chesterman Shardlows The Sheffield Twist Drill Company Spear & Jackson Thomas Turner & Co. (Files & Knives) Tyzacks Sons & Turner(Saws) Thomas Flinn & Co. Standall Tools Steadfast (Tools) Tyzack Machine Knives

Miscellaneous formerly Sheffield based companies	Batchelors^t/o Dyson Refractories^t/o Stones Brewery^t/o Trebor Bassett Sweets^t/o Richardson Sheffield^t/o Thorntons Chocolates ^r S.H. Wards Brewery^t/o

Defunct	English Steel Corporation Samuel Fox and Company Hadfields Limited Samuel Osborn & Company Jessop Saville & Company Sheffield Coal Company Simplex Cars Steel, Peech and Tozer United Steel Companies Vickers Limited Vicker, Son & Maxim William Jessop & Sons Yorkshire Engine Company

See also	Economy of Sheffield List of companies in Sheffield

t/o - Taken over, n - Nationalised, p - Privatised, a - Active, d - Defunct, h - High tech, e - E-Commerce, f - Financial services r - Relocated

Selected Royal Warrant holders of the British Royal Family

By Appointment to HM The Queen	Abels Moving Services Ainsworths Angostura Limited AkzoNobel Autoglym Axminster Carpets Bendicks Bentley Motors Bollinger Britvic BT Burberry Cadbury Carphone Warehouse Castrol Charbonnel et Walker DAKS DHL Express Dorma Ede & Ravenscroft Fortnum & Mason Frank Smythson Gieves & Hawkes H. P. Bulmer Henry Poole & Co J. Barbour and Sons James Purdey and Sons Jaguar Cars John Lewis John Lobb Land Rover Louis Roederer Mappin & Webb Martini & Rossi Minky Molton Brown Moët & Chandon Nestlé Procter & Gamble UK Roberts Radio Ryvita Schweppes Spode Steinway & Sons Tanqueray Twinings Unilever UK Vauxhall Motors Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin Waitrose Weetabix Wilkin & Sons William Drake Wolsey Worcestershire Medal Service

By Appointment to HRH The Duke of Edinburgh	Boots Opticians DAKS Ede & Ravenscroft Frank Smythson Gieves & Hawkes Hatchards Holland & Holland J. Barbour and Sons James Purdey and Sons John Lobb Land Rover Lyle & Scott Penhaligon's Truefitt & Hill

By Appointment to HRH The Prince of Wales	Ainsworths Aston Martin Autoglym Bentley Motors Burberry Crabtree & Evelyn DAKS Ede & Ravenscroft Frank Smythson Gieves & Hawkes Holland & Holland J. Barbour and Sons Jaguar Cars James Purdey and Sons John Lobb Land Rover Laphroaig Linn Products Minky Penhaligon's Peter Jones Ritz Hotel Roberts Radio Shepherd Neame Taylors of Harrogate Turnbull & Asser Vauxhall Motors Waitrose Weetabix Winsor & Newton

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