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Bank of Elegance, Marsh & Aurendel, 25 Upperhead Row, Leeds, a skit note for £50, dated 11...
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Bank of Elegance, Marsh & Aurendel, 25 Upperhead Row, Leeds, a skit note for £50, dated 11 April 1824, promising to ‘cut any Lady or Gentleman’s hair equal to any man in England or forfeit on Demand the Sum of Fifty Pounds’, with coat of arms at upper left and signatures of March and Aurendel, tape repairs to central fold on reverse, overall good fine and rare Outing Unlisted £80-£100 --- A great deal is known about Mr Luke Marsh, a tremendously successful hairdresser, born in Rotherham in 1780 and was in business as a hairdresser from at least 1804. In 1827 he returns from London having formed a partnership with Mr. Aurendel (about whom nothing can be found). By 1851 he is listed as living at a prestigious Leeds address, with several servants, and calls himself ‘a retired hatter and perfumer’ and a ‘proprietor of houses’. He died in 1859 as a fairly wealthy man.
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Bank of Elegance, Marsh & Aurendel, 25 Upperhead Row, Leeds, a skit note for £50, dated 11 April 1824, promising to ‘cut any Lady or Gentleman’s hair equal to any man in England or forfeit on Demand the Sum of Fifty Pounds’, with coat of arms at upper left and signatures of March and Aurendel, tape repairs to central fold on reverse, overall good fine and rare Outing Unlisted £80-£100 --- A great deal is known about Mr Luke Marsh, a tremendously successful hairdresser, born in Rotherham in 1780 and was in business as a hairdresser from at least 1804. In 1827 he returns from London having formed a partnership with Mr. Aurendel (about whom nothing can be found). By 1851 he is listed as living at a prestigious Leeds address, with several servants, and calls himself ‘a retired hatter and perfumer’ and a ‘proprietor of houses’. He died in 1859 as a fairly wealthy man.
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