Beard Watson & Co. were Sydney based furniture manufacturers and retailers in the early 20th century, as part of their general furnishing and homewards business.
The company commenced business in 1889 when an existing retail business was taken over and renamed by William Beard, James Watson and James Kebblewhite, and expanded into furniture manufacture when the company acquired a furniture manufacturing business in 1901.
The company established a reputation for well designed furniture of good quality, as illustrated by the items listed in this price guide.
Furniture manufacturing and retailing continued until the 1960s, and as well as the existing Sydney city store, branch stores were opened in a number of Sydney suburbs in an effort to counter declining sales in its city store.
Beard Watson was taken over Nock & Kirby in 1959 but continued to trade in its own name.
However sales continued to decline and the city store closed more...
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