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Thibouville-Lamy

Paris

France

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Started in Paris in 1860s producing all wind and string instruments.






The Thibouville family included Martin, Eugene Adrien Camille, Jerome, Andre, and Louis. And associations including: freres, frere, frere aine, pere, pere& fils, Beranger, Buffett, Cabart, Coudervillain, Creutzer, Grandin, Herouard, Lamy, Noblet, Noe, Noe & files.
There were a number of companies with the Thibouville name in
France and this history covers those who made or sold
brass instruments.

Jerome Thibouville-Lamy

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  1839 company starts as Husson & Duchene, Paris
  


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  1848 company changes to Husson & Buthod
  


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  1857 Louis Martin Thibouville joins them to form Husson,
  Buthod & Thibouville, Paris
  


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  1861 H,B&T opens a factory at Grenelle, Paris for brass inst.
  


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  1865 located at rue Reaumur 42 bis, Paris
  


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  1866 Louis Emile Jerome Thibouville (son of Louis Martin)
  registers his trademark lyre & JTL logo (top photo)
  


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  1867 Jerome advertises factory at Grenelle for brass, strings and
  organs, at Mirecourt for strings, and at La Couture for
  woodwinds
  


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  1874 Jerome awarded French patent #104550 for brass
  instrument key
  


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  1875 now at rue Reaumur 68 & 70
  


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  1878 employs workforce of 420 at four factories
  


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  1880 opens branch in London at #10 Charterhouse St
  


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  1885 employs workforce of 1,000
  


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  1887 registers trademark lyre with bird in horn (4th photo)
  


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  1889 son Louis Jerome Emile Thibouville partners with
  Alexandre Acoulon
  1889 opens agency in New York City, #106 Mercer St.
  


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  1896-1908 Acoulon is proprietor
  


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  1897 NY office now at #35 Great Jones St.
  


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  1899 NY office with Leon Duchatellier, agent
  


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  1900 now located at 68 & 68bis rue Reaumur, Paris; incorporate
  in December in NY as Jerome Thibouville-Lamy & Co.
  with Leopold Thibouville, Alfred Alcoulon & Emile
  Beranger
  


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  1905 now at 68bis & 72 rue Reaumur, Paris
  


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  1909 listing gone from NYC
  


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  1926 employed 1,000 workers at Grenelle, La Couture,
  Mirecourt (top photo), Poussey & Chateau Thierry
  


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  1932 now just listed at 68bis rue Reaumur, Paris
  


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  1951 still at same address
  

Martin Thibouville Aine

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  1820 Martin Thibouville (1793-1873) establishes a musical
  instrument factory in La Couture-Boussey, France, east of
  Paris
  


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  1823 son Nicolas Eugene Thibouville born
  


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  1848 a second location is now at 67 rue des Vieux Augustus,
  Paris and working with two sons Martin & Eugene
  


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  1855 Martin & son Martin split with Eugene and move to 69 rue
  des Vieux Augustus; flutes & clarinets
  


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  1875 Martin Thibouville et Cie. located at La Courture
  


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  1878 still at the 69 Augustus address, Martin Sr dies in May and
  the company becomes M. Thibouville Fils
  


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  1889 now at 91 rue de Turenne, Paris (2nd photo, probably sax)
  

Eugene Thibouville

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  1855 starts his own shop at 67 rue des Vieux Augustus, Paris
  then later moves to Ivry-la-Bataille (near La Couture)
  


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  1858 partners with Noblet (another source says 1862) (3rd & 4th
  photos)
  


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  1874 Noblet & Thibouville no longer together
  


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  1875 listed as Eugene Thibouville, Ivry-la-Bataille
  


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  1887 Eugene has a contract with Hubart & Persin of Paris to
  supply horns, cornets, trombones & violas
  


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  1889 two sons of Eugene, Adrien & Camille, establish and use
  the name ‘Eugene Thibouville a Ivry La Bataille’
  


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  1891 Eugene dies in December and the two sons continue under
  his name (bottom photo & first 3 photos next page)
  


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  1898 Adrien acquires two factories in Ivry-La-Bataille from M.
  Duval, a comb maker
  


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  1909 Camille leaves to form his own company but instruments
  are very rare; Adrien continues with his two sons Eugene
  (1884-1915) and George (1886-1957), operating the
  Portelle plant
  


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  1911 the Portelle plant is leased to Adrien’s sons under the
  name ‘Thibouville Brothers Ivry’
  


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  1915 brother Eugene dies in WWI at Souchez
  


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  1919 the factory at Moulin is sold
  


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  1923 Adrien dies
  


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  1940 the factory is closed following no activity during WWII
  


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  1947 George Thibouville joins Maurice Masson making
  woodwinds
  


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  1974 the company is sold to Couesnon
  

Thibouville-Creutzer

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  1890 Andre Thibouville, successor to Lefevre, 148 rue du
  Theatre Grenelle, Paris; woodwinds
  


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  1900 ‘Thibouville fils et Cie.’, successor to Bie & Noblet at La
  Couture and Lafevre of Paris
  


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  1902 Thibouville-Creutzer, 17 Rochechouart Boulevard, Paris
  


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  1903 T-C, 148 rue du Theatre Grenelle, Paris, run by Andre’s
  son Desire Etienne Thibouville
  


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  1905 now at 50 Temple
  


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  1909 Thibouville-Creutzer, successor, 50 rue du Faubourg-du-
  Temple, Paris; woodwinds & brass (4th photo)
  c.1910 now in bankruptcy
  Lefevre, Paris cornet bottom right
  

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