S.J. Shrubsole
Sixty-five years ago Eric Shrubsole and his father opened a branch of their London Shop, S.J. Shrubsole, in New York City. Driving a 1936 Packard full of silver across country, Mr. Shrubsole succeeded in building a clientele throughout the United States. Since then we have had the good fortune to work with some of the world's greatest collectors - from the serious, such as Irwin Untermyer and Henry Francais duPont, to the compulsive, such as Arthur Gilbert and William Randolph Hearst, to the compulsively unserious, such as Groucho Marx. And we have dealt with some of the world's greatest rarities - including Paul de Lamerie's magnificent Sutherland wine cistern now in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; the Elizabethan ewer and basin in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Ashburnham centerpiece by Nicholas Sprimont in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.