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The collection of six items, with an envelope, is in good condition. An interesting sidelight into 1930s business practice, and an insight into an unusual business concern. First, copy of letter, 14 November 1930 (4to: 1 p), to the firm from Percy L. Young of Messrs H. Young & Co. Constructional Engineers, confirming a verbal order 'for the installation and supply of lightning conductors' to 2 Orchard Rise, Sheen Common Drive, East Sheen. Accompanied by the firm's typed confirmation of the order, 13 November 1930, signed by director Alfred Hands, on two pages of a quarto bifolium, on a letterhead elaborately printed with, among other features, an engraving of a church being struck by lightning, surrounded by illustrations of the 'Prize Medals Awarded At International Exhibitions'. Gives a detailed quotation of the work to be undertaken. Statement and receipt for the same order follow. Also included is an eight-page quarto stapled publicity pamphlet, printed on art paper in red and black, with twelve photographic illustrations (ten of them of different sorts of lightning) together with an attractive full-page illustration showing two men 'Gilding the Cross of St. Paul's Cathedral' ('From THE SPHERE, August 3th, 1913. Four Hundred Feet above the London Street'). The last faces a page reproducing a piece from the City Press, 13 August 1913, entitled 'St. Paul's Dome, Regilding and Lightning Conductors'. Recommendations on the final page include the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the Meteorological Office, and Sir Oliver Lodge. The last item is a typed one-page foolscap circular, on elaborate printed letterhead, with four illustrations, by the firm of J. W. Gray & Co. [sic], announcing its amalgamation from 1 August 1929 'with the well known firm of J. W. Gray & Son Ltd'.