{{short description|British bullion house}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2018}} {{Use British English|date=February 2018}} {{Infobox company | name = Sharps Pixley | logo = File:SharpsPixley-Logo-Gold.png | type = bullion house | industry = | fate = | predecessor = {{ubl|Sharps Wilkins|Pixley & Abell}} | successor = <!-- or: | successors = --> | founded = 1957, in London | founder = | defunct = <!-- {{End date|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | hq_location_city = London | hq_location_country = United Kingdom | products = | owner = | website = {{url|sharpspixley.com}} | parent = }} thumb|Stewart Pixley in 1890 '''Sharps Pixley''' was a British bullion house. It was formed in 1957 when two private bullion partnerships merged: Sharps Wilkins, founded in 1740, and Pixley & Abell, founded in 1852.{{r|will|page=81}} It was one of the five firms that met twice daily for the London Gold Fixing, the others being N. M. Rothschild & Sons, Johnson Matthey, Mocatta & Goldsmid, and Samuel Montagu & Co. Sharps Pixley was bought by Kleinwort Benson in 1966, largely at the behest of the Bank of England.{{r|wake|page=385}}
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<ref name=will>William M. Clarke, George Pulay (2012). [https://books.google.com/books?id=CDM0uFwJPZoC&pg=PA81 ''The World's Money'']. Abingdon: Routledge. {{ISBN|9781136271434}}.</ref> <ref name=wake>Jehanne Wake (1997). [https://books.google.com/books?id=Qm1fHrcgZuoC&pg=PA385 ''Kleinwort, Benson: The History of Two Families in Banking'']. Oxford: Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|9780198282990}}.</ref>
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Category:British companies established in 1957 Category:Companies based in the City of London Category:Bullion dealers Category:Gold in the United Kingdom Category:Business services companies established in 1957 Category:1957 establishments in England