Robert Scott

ROBERT SCOTT, Manufacturing and Wholesale Jeweller, 8, Buchanan Street, Glasgow.

    The representation of a large proportion of Glasgow’s wholesale and manufacturing jewellery trade has long devolved upon the operations of the business now conduced in Buchanan Street by Mr. Robert Scott. It constitutes one of the oldest concerns of the kind in the commercial capital, and is favoured by a support and patronage that represent the accumulated custom of some eighty or ninety years.

    The founder, Mr. Thomas Muir, was succeeded by Messrs. Taylor and Downes, and, until its acquisition by the present proprietor thirteen years ago, the business was widely known under that firm name. From its original position in the Trongate it was this year transferred to the present convenient and central location in Buchanan Street, and there are here shown many favourable facilities tending to improve the whole conditions under which a busy and progressive industry is carried out.

    Access to the principal showroom is gained by a single stair, and in this handsome apartment there are displayed selections of clocks and silver-plate that are quite a treat to observe, as regards their variety and diversity and the highly artistic and tasteful manner in which they are submitted to the inspection of customers. On the counter are ranged assortments of superior watches, chains, etc., neatly set off in cases, and the whole specialties bespeak those characteristics of novelty and elegance that so well preserve the excellence of Scottish jewellery.

    The accuracy and precision with which every detail and process of the industry are carried out will be apparent to any one who is privileged by a visit to Mr. Scott’s workrooms. Therein a staff of thirty trained jewellers operate in every class of gold and silver, producing, with equal rapidity and efficiency, the simplest articles of personal adornment, and the most elaborate. With the special aptitude and proficiency of a firm versed and skilled in every essential of the art industry exemplified, they carry out the work in the best possible style, and the whole manufactures of the house may be said to illustrate the most exquisite ideals of jewellery-making art. The whole operations of the trade are undertaken on a scale of completeness highly creditable to the versatility of the firm’s handiwork, and everything that can be produced from silver or gold is subjected to capable treatment. It is the best evidence of the high qualifications of everything emanating from this establishment that its productions command a ready disposal among jewellers whose standing and reputation in the trade must be maintained by the sale of only first-class goods.

    Mr. Scott has earned the personal esteem of his constituents by his constant anticipation of their requirements, and his assiduous endeavour to maintain the high artistic standard of the industry has been well rewarded in the continued prosperity of the old and influential concern with which his name is identified.

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