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On what date did the wine merchant deliver this Port?

Is it “4 Jan 1911” (which was a Wednesday)?

Are there any immediately preceding or subsequent dates in the ledger?

And is this definitely a date?
Is it possible to include more of the surrounding text as context?

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Yes, definitely a date.

Agree on "4 Jan 1911"

Yes. Seeing his looped Js and the rounded nature of his other characters confirms this.

Thank you team.

And Jan makes sense given the chronological sequencing - it immediately follows 1914, and is then followed by date entries which look like March and April.

flash_uk wrote:And Jan makes sense given the chronological sequencing - it immediately follows 1914, and is then followed by date entries which look like March and April.

You're looking at the wrong image.

Who is the second partner in the wine merchant selling the Martinez 1904?


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Could it be (a surprisingly French) “frère”? Or “friere”, with lower-case ‘f’?

& Grieve.

Look at the similarity of the start of the unknown word to the two occurrences of "the" earlier in the photo. I would see the unknown word as being something such as THRIEVE

Thrieve? Are you smoking crack? That's an 'and' sign (reduced ampersand) and a G.

djewesbury wrote:& Grieve.

Interesting.

A [url=http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD/GBR/2938/CCCC02/S/CCCC02/S/53a/21]reference in a Cambridge library entitled “Memorandum re Hamilton & Grieve of St James St”[/url] wrote:'Grieve is a Trinity man, friend of Bullough). Basil Arthur Firebrace Grieve, d. 1917.

And this picture came from Trinity College.

Edit: your researching the name was faster.

djewesbury wrote:Thrieve? Are you smoking crack? That's an 'and' sign (reduced ampersand) and a G.

No. Skunk. Goes better with Dow '91.

AHB wrote:

djewesbury wrote:Thrieve? Are you smoking crack? That's an 'and' sign (reduced ampersand) and a G.

No. Skunk. Goes better with Dow '91.

I completely agree.

I should point out that it was my keen, orthographic detective's eye which revealed the answer. Google followed after, as corroboration.

djewesbury wrote:I should point out that it was my keen, orthographic detective's eye which revealed the answer. Google followed after, as corroboration.

I knew that. You are clearly feeling insecure in needing to point it out. Man up.

I just thought I should advertise my good points. Like the Americans do.

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Link to large image, with original colouration.

“Sealed G. B. Clarke & Co”? “… & Son”? Other?

(Nothing else in this hand: no further clues.)

& Co.

Whence comes this Croft 1834?

(Second picture has added brightness and contrast, and colour completely de-saturated.)

Bin No. 58 Port
1875 April 13 Bought by ?. C. ???? Esq
of ?? ?????? "1834"
Thompson and Crofts at 75/-
cost with expenses 100/-

I can't decipher the buyer's name or seller's name properly, the latter looks something like "Wm. Tilliffe" (shortened Wilhelm?) but I have no confidence in that reading. Does look like purchase of "1834 Thompson & Crofts" though, not just Croft.

My question asked “whence”. You have answered everything else (though I think the no-expenses cost was 95/-). And Croft was formerly known as Thompson & Croft.