Perry & Co
Perry & Co was a shop selling pens, stationery, bags, suitcases, and board games.
Perry & Co in de Kalverstraat, jaartal onbekend
Vervaardiger onbekend. Stadsarchief Amsterdam Copyright: Status onduidelijk
Perry & Co., N.V. Trading Company was located at Kalverstraat 93-99, Amsterdam.[1] It was a shop selling toys, stationery, household items, and board games, among other things.[2] Anne Frank writes in her diary that she wants to ask Bep Voskuijl to check at Perry's to see if any diaries are still available there.[3]
Footnotes
- ^ Algemeen Adresboek der stad Amsterdam. 85ste jaargang, 1938-1939, p. 986. Also see: 'Perry begon in 1866 met 'voorwerpen voor huiselijk gebruik', NOS Nieuws, 22 februari 2016.
- ^ "Wij zoeken:", Het Volk, 1 september 1944, p. 2.
- ^ Anne spelled the name of the shop as Perrij. Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 20 October 1942, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.