Sales daybook
Sales daybook (1 May 1947-15 November 1948) of John Sparks Ltd, dealer in Chinese art (London). Book of prime entry in which John Sparks Ltd recorded sales invoices issued to its clients for goods or services supplied in the course of its trade. Entries in the daybook record the stock number of good...
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1 May 1947-15 November 1948 |
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SOAS Archive |
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JSP.03.10 |
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archive |
scb_item_location |
Archive & Special Collections |
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Archive & Special Collections |
scb_loan_type |
Reference only |
callnumber |
JSP/03/10 |
callnumber_txt |
JSP/03/10 |
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JSP/03/10 |
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10 |
title |
Sales daybook |
scb_date_creation |
1 May 1947-15 November 1948 |
scb_level |
Item |
level_sort |
8/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File/Item |
scb_extent |
1 volume |
format |
Archive |
description |
Sales daybook (1 May 1947-15 November 1948) of John Sparks Ltd, dealer in Chinese art (London). Book of prime entry in which John Sparks Ltd recorded sales invoices issued to its clients for goods or services supplied in the course of its trade. Entries in the daybook record the stock number of goods supplied , , date of invoice, name of client account, brief description of goods supplied or services vended, page number for client account in Sales ledger in which invoice posted , value of individual invoice (£-s-d), and total value of invoices (£-s-d). Invoice entries are arranged chronologically in the daybook by date, with a running total of invoices for each month at bottom of page (£-s-d). Daybook also records 'Credits' posted to client accounts by John Sparks Ltd for goods returned to the company, May 1947-October 1948 (pp. 558-578). Credit entries record: stock number of returned goods, date credit issued, name of client account, brief description of returned goods, page number for client account in Sales ledger in which credit posted , and value of credit (£-s-d). Credit entries arranged in reverse order by date, with running total of credit for each month at bottom of each page (£-s-d). Ruled paper. Handwritten. 1 volume. 579 pp. (578 containing entries). Brown marbled endpapers. No cover. No spine. |
scb_access_status |
Closed |
scb_closed_until |
01/01/2032 |
scb_conditions_gov_access |
Closed under data protection legislation until 1st January 2032 |
language |
English |
language_search |
English |
scb_physc_charac_tech_reqs |
Conservation work undertaken on the volume in 2016. Leather cover removed due to red rot degradation. |
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JSP |
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JSP.0003.0010 |