Outer - 100% Wool Lining - Viscose blend Label stated: 'Laird Montague Burton - The Tailor of Taste Ltd - Scotlands Super Suiting' ^^ A very scarce variation of the classic logo for Burton's 'Laird' range of Scottish tweeds ^^ (Montague Burton Ltd) The label in question dates from around the 1920's to the late 1940's era. No later. We have estimated the item to be produced within the 1940's era. Quite possibly 1947 << See below for further details. Made in Great Britain (Scottish wool) Label to inside pocket states the following: ' Scotch / Burton - Cutting No. 58240 - Quality/Col L74 GREY 8080 / 4 / CHEST 42 / Col No. 45 - Rotary - Cut No. 2320552 - Style (3A?) Size 7 Waist - Leg - Price - Branch S/N - Date - Branch No (47154) ' We beleive the coding '47154' relates to the date of manufacture. Being 1947. Feat. Button-fly front, notch lapels with button hole, four button cuff (non working), side vents, deep vented waist pockets & a single inside pocket. There are also seams running down both outer arms and rear. Brief History Montague Burton - Born a Lithuanian Jew (Meshe David Osinsky) in Kaunas province, he came alone to Britain in 1900, to escape the Russian pogroms. He was well-educated, having studied in a yeshiva, but arrived unable to speak English. In 1909 he married Sophia Amelia Marks: they had one daughter, Barbara (1910), and three sons, Stanley (1914) and twins Raymond and Arnold (1917). He died while speaking after a dinner in Leeds on 21 September 1952. The funeral was at the Harrogate Synagogue, (some sources say Chapeltown) and he was interred at Gildersome. However, he and his wife were reinterred in 1964 at Stonefall Jewish cemetery, Harrogate, the first to be buried there. Career In 1901, he was staying in Cheetham Hill, Manchester. He started as a peddler, then set up as a general outfitter in Chesterfield in 1903 selling readymade suits bought from a wholesaler.[2][3] Following his marriage to Sophie Marks in 1909 the name of the company was changed from M. Burton to Burton & Burton. On the birth of twin boys in (1917) he gave his name as Montague Maurice Burton. However, he had not changed his name legally, which caused problems during the First World War.[2] By 1913 Burton had five men's tailor shops with headquarters in Sheffield and manufacturing in Leeds. He had four hundred shops, and factories and mills, by 1929, when the company went public. His firm made a quarter of the British military uniforms during World War II and a third of demobilisation clothing. Burton declined the offer to be Lord Mayor of Leeds in 1930 but was knighted in 1931 for "services to industrial relations" and was a Justice of the Peace from 1924. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries in 1940 and was awarded an honorary doctorate (DLitt) by the University of Leeds in 1944. Burton endowed chairs in industrial relations in the University of Leeds and Cardiff in 1929 and Cambridge in 1930. He also endowed chairs of international relations in Jerusalem (1929), at Oxford University (1930), the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (1936) and The University of Edinburgh (1948). He is commemorated in the Montague Burton Residences, which are student flats at the University of Leeds. LAIRD - Laird is a generic name for the owner of a large, long-named Scottish estate, roughly equivalent to an esquire in England, yet ranking above the same in Scotland. In the Scottish order of precedence, a laird ranks below a baron and above a gentleman. This rank is only held by those lairds holding official recognition in a territorial designation by the Lord Lyon King of Arms. Heavy weighted 2 KG+ > Hence International postage prices outside of the U.K.
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