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Some of the rate book entries on FMP also relate to Marylebone Street Great (sic) all under G Metcalfe (there are a couple of pages of entries, and I only picked out a few to look at)
 
The European Magazine & London Review Volume 70
List of Patents for inventions.
Jacob Metcalf of Great Marylebone Street Middlesex, brush manufacturer, for a tapered hair or head brush. Dated Sept 30 1816.
So it seems Jacob was around for a while.
Also 1843 Commercial Directory.
George Metcalf 130 b Oxford Street Brush and Comb manufacturer. Perhaps his son/brother.
Edit see post #13 by @MollyMay
 
Jacob is also listed , at the same address , in Pigot's 1825 directory. But he is not entered in the Post office directory of 1846. In the 1825 Pigot there is also a George Metcalfe, brush and comb maker at 130 Oxford St, while in the 1839 & 1846 directories thisOxford St address is given for Frederick Metcalfe, brush & comb maker. So several members of the family seem to be in the trade
 
I have written it all up and included snips of the marriage and censuses and found via Booth's Poverty Maps where 38 Great Marylebone Street was. It is now part of New Cavendish Street, which swallowed it up from being further up the same road. The write-up now runs to 4 pages and I shall be whizzing it over this morning. :)

Thank you all! {-(^^)-}
 
Couldn't resist one more advert :)
Morning Post 29th May 1829
No. 38 Great Marylebone-street, London - By his Majesty's Royal Letters Patent - J. METCALFE, Brush and Comb Maker, etc. etc., returns thanks for the patronage he has for many years received, and informs the Nobility and Gentry that he continues to MAKE of unrivalled excellence, his PATENT and all other kinds or HAIRBRUSHES etc. etc. His pre-eminent Tooth Brushes of every pattern, recommended by the several Dentists, and all kinds of Brushes whatsoever. Combs of all denominations of superior manufacture. – N.B. The above made to pattern. J. Metcalfe’s Tooth Powder: the Proprietor has only to state that from a practice of more than thirty years on ossified and cortaxical substances (i.e. Bone and Enamel), as Artisan to the most eminent Dentists, first to the Chevalier Ruspini, and most others of celebrity has acquired a knowledge of the teeth beyond the power of most Dentists to obtain; on these grounds recommends the above for beautifying and preserving the teeth.

Jacob's Freedom of the City of London Admission Papers are on Ancestry. He became a Freeman of the Stationer's Company by patrimony on the 5th March 1805, his father already being a member.
 
Archie's Mum said:
After all that did we manage to find a maker of cow horn beakers?
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We did. The address ties in as does the name and time period. Horn beakers were often made by folk who worked with horn in other trades and, as combs and brushes were made of horn in the 19th century, it is a 99.9% chnce that it is correct.

I have sent the information over to my friend and am just waiting to see what he says. :)
 
Sorry. I meant any reference to beakers with the Metcalfs.
I was trying to see if any of his combs and beakers and such advertised here but Trove is down. Just my luck.
 
Metcalf even exported to Oz.
On the 25/6/1858, Sydney Morning Herald, Mr Deeper, hairdresser of 302 George Street Sydney is advertising 'Metcalf brushes, perfumed lavender water, tortoiseshell combs and a variety of first class goods'
Imports ex Ellora and Philomene (ships) 3 cases Metcalfes Brushes & sundries.
Sydney Morning Herald 24/11/1875
 
Archie's Mum said:
Metcalf even exported to Oz.
On the 25/6/1858, Sydney Morning Herald, Mr Deeper, hairdresser of 302 George Street Sydney is advertising 'Metcalf brushes, perfumed lavender water, tortoiseshell combs and a variety of first class goods'
Imports ex Ellora and Philomene (ships) 3 cases Metcalfes Brushes & sundries.
Sydney Morning Herald 24/11/1875
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Elias Deeper, perfumer etc....must look him up. 1858 Directory of Sydney.
 
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