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History
It was founded in 1848 by Samuel Stevens, member of a family of natural history auctioneers, who withdrew from the family’s auction firm to do so (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry for Stevens family)
In 1867 Stevens sold the agency to Edmund Thomas Higgins (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry for Stevens family)
It apparently no longer exists
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What was reforming about it?
It was a pioneer of the burgeoning trade in natural history specimens; it handled the sale of collections by Alfred Russel Wallace and Henry Bates (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry for Stevens family)
Where in Bloomsbury
Its original home in 1848 was 24 Charlotte Street (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry for Stevens family)
Website of current institution
It no longer exists
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