IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/2066
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: MULLER, CHRISTOPHER, COMMISSION AGENT
Date(s): 1871-1923
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.63 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Müller | Christopher | d 1915 | Commission Agent, dealer in furs and pelts
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Christopher Müller arrived in England from Wertheim in Germany, via Paris, in or before 1886. He started work in March 1886 in London as a book-keeper and correspondent with the British Woollen Warehouse Corporation, and in 1895 moved to Kuetgens Bros, woollen merchants in a similar capacity. He left that situation in 1898. It is not clear what he was doing between 1898 and 1912 but his tax returns indicate that he was living in London. In May 1912 he started a business as a Commission Agent, dealing chiefly in furs and pelts, and trading with France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Russia. He died in 1915. The business seems to have been carried on for a short while by his son Fritz (Frederick) Müller, a publisher, but finally ceased about 1921.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Business papers of Christopher Müller and son, dealers in furs and pelts, 1871-1923, including testimonials, correspondence and letter books, financial accounts, stock books, tax returns and property lease.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
ACC/2066/01 to ACC/2066/011.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright rests with the City of London.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Gifted in 1985
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Other family papers are also deposited at the London Borough of Brent Local History Library, The Grange Museum, Neasden Lane, London NW10 1QB.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009