V. Behar and Co

of 300 and 302 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

• 1896 Company established.

• 1914 Eastern merchants and Turkey carpet manufacturers. Specialities: Turkey carpets, Raheb Turkish pile, British-made carpet, eastern carpets, British Axminsters in seamed and seamless squares, stair carpets, parquetries and wall panelings to suit all periods, linoleums printed to special designs, high-class draperies, chintzes, blinds, materials for chair coverings, tapestries, curtains dyed with special fast shades, vegetable dyes, antique furniture and reproductions; complete furnishings of hotels, hydros, churches, clubs etc.

V. Behar Limited was incorporated as a private company, with capital of £30,000, to acquire the business of Eastern carpet importers, house furnishers and decorators.

1965 The company went into voluntary liquidation.

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Sources of Information

• National Records of Scotland BT2/9282