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Wheatstone & Co. Concertina Ledgers

Original factory records of production and sales of Wheatstone & Co. concertinas, photographed from the collection of the Horniman Museum. Click for more information.


Click here to see a list of the Wayne Archives Ledgers


Wayne
C104a

Wayne
C1046

Wayne
C1047

Wayne
C1048

Wayne
C1049

Wayne
C1050
Numbers
1–1500
Sales
1839–1848
Sales
1851–1852
Sales
1852–1854
Sales
1854–1856
Sales
1856–1857



Wayne
C1051

Wayne
C1052

Wayne
C1053

Wayne
C1054

Wayne
C1055

Wayne
C1056
Sales
1857–1859
Sales
1859–1864
Sales
1864–1870
Production
1866–1891
Payments
1845–1846
Payments
1848–1849

Click here to see a list of the Dickinson Archives Ledgers


Dickinson
SD01

Dickinson
SD02

Dickinson
SD03

Dickinson
SD04

Dickinson
SD05
Production
1910–1923
Production
1923–1937
Production
1937–1974
Anglo Production
1953–1974
Daybook
1972–1974


Horniman Museum, London

Wheatstone & Co. Concertina Ledgers at the Horniman Museum, London

Historical business records from C. Wheatstone & Co. are held at the Library of the Horniman Museum in London. The earliest ledgers from the Wayne Archives contain company sales records from the late 1830s to the 1860s (though with some large gaps) along with production records from the 1860s to the 1890s and some early records of wages and other payments. Later ledgers from the Dickinson Archives contain production records from 1910 to 1974, again with some gaps. All known ledgers have been digitized and made available free on this website for private research.

Click on one of the two labelled buttons above to see an annotated list of indexes of all twelve Wayne Archives ledgers or of all five Dickinson Archives ledgers.

Click on the picture of any individual ledger above to go to the index for that volume. Each index provides direct access for browsing all the pages of a volume.

Click on the four documents below to learn more about Wheatstone Concertina Ledgers:

The nineteenth-century ledgers were formerly part of the Concertina Museum collection assembled by Neil Wayne, which was purchased for the Horniman Museum with the generous support of the Heritage Lottery Fund and the MGC/Science Museum PRISM Fund. Twentieth-century ledgers have been added on loan from the collection of Steve Dickinson, who acquired these ledgers with his purchase of C. Wheatstone & Co. in 1975.

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