Other InformationFounded in 1901 by Francis Sangorski (1875-1912) and George Sutcliffe (1877-1943); carried on by Sutcliffe alone after Sangorski's death; inherited by Stanley Bray (1907-1995), who sold the firm in 1978 to the jewellers Asprey of Bond Street; they continued the business under the same name until 1988, when Asprey acquired the Zaehnsdorf firm and merged the two into SSZ Ltd. When Shepherds acquired the combined firm in 1998, they added the Sangorski & Sutcliffe name to theirs in advertising. [From "The Cinderella of the Arts: a short history of Sangorski & Sutcliffe" (London: Shepherds, 2015)]
Variant NamesSangorski and Sutcliffe
Other Identifierhttp://thesaurus.cerl.org/record/cnc00020585
Other InformationFounded in 1901 by Francis Sangorski (1875-1912) and George Sutcliffe (1877-1943); carried on by Sutcliffe alone after Sangorski's death; inherited by Stanley Bray (1907-1995), who sold the firm in 1978 to the jewellers Asprey of Bond Street; they continued the business under the same name until 1988, when Asprey acquired the Zaehnsdorf firm and merged the two into SSZ Ltd. When Shepherds acquired the combined firm in 1998, they added the Sangorski & Sutcliffe name to theirs in advertising. [From "The Cinderella of the Arts: a short history of Sangorski & Sutcliffe" (London: Shepherds, 2015)]
Variant NamesSangorski and Sutcliffe
Other Identifierhttp://thesaurus.cerl.org/record/cnc00020585