SEALSKIN INDUSTRY IN GREAT BRITAIN. 567 



Greliert, E., & Grison. Revillon Fiercs. 



Handler, N., & Fils. Revillon, S. 



Hertz, E., & Co. 



Bromljerg, M., & Co. Gandig & Blnra. 



Dorufeldt, G. ' Kouigewertbcr, H. M, 



Tliis is the paper writing marked A referred to in the affidavit of George Curtis 

 Lampson, sworn before me this 23d day of April, 1892. 



Francis W. Frigout, 

 Vice and Deputy Consul-General, U. S. A., London, England. 



Deposition of ^Yalier Edward llartin, head of the firm of C. ^Y. Mar- 

 tin & Sons, furriers, London. 



GENERAL SEALSKIN INDUSTRY. 



Walter Edward Martin, being dnly sworn, doth depose as follows: 



First. TLat he is 40 years of age, a subject of Her Britannic Majesty, 

 and lives in the city of St. Albans, and carries on business at 4 Lambeth 

 Hill, in the city of London ; thsit he is the head of the firm of C. W. Mar- 

 tin & Sons, who are the successors of the firm of JMartin & Teichmann, 

 which firm was composed of deponent's father, C. W. Martin, and Emil 

 Teichmann, who is now a member of the firm of C. M, Lampson & Co., of 

 the city of London ; that the said firm of C. W. Martin & Sons is engaged 

 in the l3usinessof dressing and dyeing furs of all kiiuls; that they have 

 until the last year and have for many years last past dressed and dyed 

 a larger number of skins of the fur-seal than all the other firms in the 

 world together; that deponent has made no examination of the books of 

 liis firm tor the purpose of seeing precisely the number of skins annually 

 dressed and dyed by his said firm and its predecessor, but it is the fact 

 that his said firm in one year dressed 150,000 fur-seal skins, and of that 

 number dyed 130,000, and it is also the fact that until within the last 

 two years his firm dressed u])wards of 110,000 or l!iO,000 skins in each 

 year, and dyed upwards of 100,000 skins so dressed. 



That deponent has been in the business of dressing and dyeing fur-seal 

 skins about twenty-two years; that he has personally 

 handled many hundreds of thousands of such skins, and ^penence. 

 that he has a detailed and specific knowledge of the character of the 

 various sorts of seal skins and of the markets therefor, and that he has 

 also a general knowledge of the history of the seal-skin business during 

 the Avhole of tliat period. 



S(M'ond. That the first seal skins of which deponent has any knowl- 

 edge arriving in the London market were consigned 

 by a Russian company to the firm of J. M. Oppenheim ji,f„f4"'""^ "* *^® 

 & Co., the business of which firm, so far in as it related 

 to the dressing and dyeing of fur-seal skins, was subsequently taken 

 over by the firm of Martin »& Teichmann. That the fur-seal skin busi- 

 ness was greatly developed about the year 1870 through 

 the eifortsof C. M. Lampson & Co.; that ab(mt that .lu^rr^T'"^™""* "*" '° 

 time the firm of J. M. Oppenheim & Co. found great 

 dilficulties in getting the skins properly unhaired, dressed, and 



