Margot Hatto
Rose Margot Hatto (née Feibelmann; 17 May 1911 – 7 July 2000) was a British business owner of German origin.
Early life and education[edit]
Margot Hatto was born Rose Margot Feibelmann on 17 May 1911 in Düsseldorf, Germany. She was the daughter of Max Feibelmann, the senior cantor at the main synagogue in the city, and his wife Frieda Feibelmann (née Grünewald). Hatto studied medicine at Berlin University, during which, in 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power, after which her parents sent her to Zurich and Bern for her studies.[1]
While an English tutor at the University of Bern she met Arthur Hatto,[1] who work there from 1932 to 1934 as a Lektor for English.[2] Both left for England in 1934, when he returned to King's College London, and the following year they married.[2] Her parents followed in March 1939; as the family was Jewish, the move to Britain likely saved their lives.[2]
Career[edit]
Margot Hatto began producing greeting cards as a way of supporting her parents after their 1939 arrival. Her first cards were prints of black and white photographs she had taken with her Leica camera, and were dried with Arthur Hatto's trouser press. After they were noticed by a retailer along the Strand, Margot Hatto received his marketing advice, and began selling the cards, now under the name "Manor Cards", to prominent street chains. Her products progressed to include colour cards and gift tags, frequently depicting ballet subjects, with photographs by professional photographers.[1]
As her business progressed, Hatto would select photographs for use and send the transparencies away so that copper printing plates could be made, after which another company would print the pictures. She would undertake the later stages of the process at her Radlett, Hertfordshire, home, using an old-fashioned printing press, and a table-top machine to typeset and print greetings inside the cards. Later still, she purchased modern printing presses, used professional printers, and founded the Trefoil Printing Company Limited, at which point she moved out of her home an into a separate location.[1]
Hatto was also a silversmith, having been taught the craft by her friend, the gold- and silversmith Steve Wager. At her death she left him her smithing workshop, which included the designs for a bowl later termed "The Hatto Bowl".[3]
In 2012 her daughter donated Hatto's collection of colour transparencies, glass plate negatives, and photographic prints of the Sadler's Wells Ballet, to the Royal Opera House.[1]
Personal life[edit]
Hatto remained married to Arthur Thomas Hatto until her death on 7 July 2000.[1][4] They had a daughter, Jane Lutman,[1] and a son-in-law, Peter.[5]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Royal Opera House.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Flood 2011, p. 175.
- ↑ Woolley & Wallis 2018, p. 193.
- ↑ The Times 2010b.
- ↑ The Times 2010a.
Bibliography[edit]
- Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu. Salisbury: Woolley & Wallis. 2018. Retrieved 14 April 2018. Search this book on
- Flood, John L. (2011). "Arthur Thomas Hatto: 1910–2010". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy. British Academy. X. doi:10.5871/bacad/9780197264904.001.0001.
- "HATTO Arthur Thomas". People. The Times (69846). London. 16 January 2010. p. 102.
- "Professor Arthur Hatto: linguistic and literary scholar". People. The Times (69899). London. 19 March 2010. p. 79. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
- "Margot Hatto Photographic Collection". Collections Online. Royal Opera House. 1980–1981. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
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