Abbreviation Collier Surname Collier Given Name Thomas Dates a 1763-1785 Provenance London Notes Maker of recorders, transverse flutes, and oboes who in 1765 seems to have succeeded Charles Schuchart (1720-1765) to whom he may have been apprenticed. It has been suggested that instruments stamped with a Brabant lion (including a recorder) were made for Collier by another maker. Recorders by Thomas Collier