My article 'Christies's New Hall Vault Sale of Kronheim Prints 1987' which can be found under 'Chats' on the website gives the detailed history of 55,000 sheet sof Kronheim prints that were sold at auction in 1987.
How did they remain together until they were purchased by a collector in 1919?
The only connection I can find is when Kronheim moved to new premises at Fawley Road Tottenham Hale in 1903, one of their new neighbours was Millington & Sons, envelope manufacturers. There can be no way that Kronheim would have moved this vast amont of unwanted stock just to be stored at the new factory so could they have sold them as 'scrap' to Millingtons to recycle back to envelopes? If Millingtons did see some future value in them and didn't scrap them at the time.
Millingtons was taken over by John Dickinson Ltd in 1918 and we do know that it was Dickinson that sold them to the collector in 1919.
Can anyone help with a more solid connection between Kronheim, Millingtons and then to John Dickinson Limited