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A GRATEFUL SILVERWARE MANUFACTURER

New York


He Lost a $2,000 Wad, Recovered It and Opened His Heart

Officer Bell, Who Found the Obese Pocketbook, Received an Order Tor Anything in the House. Mrs. Bell Promptly Toed the Scratch and Selected a Silver Tea Service


On Friday afternoon Edward Bell, one of the supreme court officers, entered the special term room. The place was deserted, but on one of the tables the officer saw a large fat pocketbook. It was a book of dignified proportions and goodly bearing. When he opened it there was something over $2,000 in cash, beside certified checks and other papers. Mr. Bell handed the pocketbook over to the clerk to await a claimant. One soon came in a hurry. He was Frederick F. Sysyer, a silverware manufacturer of 549 Lexington avenue, New York. He proved himself the owner of the property and went his way rejoicing. But that was not the last Mr. Bell heard of the occurrence. He received an order from Mr. Sysyer for about any article he wanted in the warerooms In New York. So armed with this Mrs. Bell visited the warerooms and was presented with a handsome silver tea service.


Source: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle - 16th November 1893

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LEGATE Mfg. Co.

Hartford, Connecticut


The Legate Manufacturing Company, Hartford, Conn., have greatly increased the size of their store and are now carrying the goods of the leading silversmiths. They do a large local trade in plating.

Source: The Metal Industry - May 1905

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SALE OF THE DUTCHESS OF MONTROSE'S PEARL NECKLACE

London


The pearl necklace of the late Duchess of Montrose, which was sold at auction the other day for the benefit of the poor of London for $62,000, is said to be almost unrivaled. It is composed of seven rows containing 362 finely graduated pearls, with a diamond tablet snap. The pearls had been collected with the utmost care, so that the like of such a necklace, for size, color and faultless matching, can hardly be found. Experts have declared that only three necklaces exist which can be compared for the splendors of symmetry and dimensions with these seven rows. Two of those three necklaces belong to queens. The third is the property of a wealthy family. The Duchess of Montrose’s necklace was knocked down at auction amid an excited crowd of would-be buyers.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 8th May 1895

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SEA BEANS

Florida


Quite an important industry has lately sprung up in Florida in the preparation and mounting as watch charms, sleeve buttons, ear drops, &c., what are commonly known as Florida sea beans. At St. Augustine the United States Government has a sea bean factory, where a large number of Indian prisoners are employed polishing these pretty and curious products—of the sea, it is popularly supposed. “I can get no clue to their origin," said an intelligent Florida tourist the other day. “ They are said to come from the sea. Do they grow there? " Another gentleman, who had been connected with a popular winter resort in Nassau, was quite positive that they were a marine product. The encyclopaedias are silent with regard to them. Tourists and tourists’ books, guide books, and similar sources of information fail to explain their origin. They are for sale in all the fancy stores and notion shops, and at all the street corners by curbstone dealers in cheap jewellery. Everybody knows what they are; but all that is popularly known about their origin is that they are picked up along the Florida beaches after storms, and that large quantities of them are brought from the Bahamas, where they are likewise washed up from the sea.

On splitting one open it was at once apparent that it could not have grown in the see; no marine plant bears dicotyledonous seeds. It was clearly a bean of some sort, and if they did not grow along the beaches where or near where they are picked up, they must have grown elsewhere, and possibly may have been floated by the Gulf Stream from the South. Thither we sought for them; and to save other labourers the trouble of identifying them we will say that after much research we were able to trace them to their native soil.

They are well known in the West Indies, where they are variously called from their appearance ox-eyes and asses’ eyes. The earliest description of them and the tree which bears them appears in the second volume of the " Natural History of Jamaica,” by Hans Sloane. The tree was found by him on low ground "by the river’s side under the town, and on the Red Hills very plentifnlly." His description of the tree, which he calls Cytisaus arboreua, is quaint enough : “ This tree has several trunks, each as large as one man's leg, rising together, covered with smooth cinnamon-coloured bark, straight, 8 or 9 feet high, the branches rising upright, all round about beset with leaves coming out at an inch’s interval, three always together, all taking their origin at the end of an inch-long green common footstalk."

There appear to be several allied trees bearing beans sold under the common name. Linnaeus describes the ox-eye tree as Dolichos urens. De Candollc's name is Mucena urens. In his splendid " Flora des Antilles” De Tussae figures life size and beautifully coloured the stem, leaf, flower, and fruit of the tree which yields the larger and handsomer beans, an describes the tree as Negretia arms. In many parts of the West Indies the superstitions carry ox-eyes in their pockets, as like classes here carry buck-eyes or horse chestnuts, and for the same purpose.


Source: The British Trade Journal - 1st June 1878

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JOHN W. WARTSCHOW

Brooklyn, New York


John W. Wartschow, 35 years old, of 321, Pacific street, a silversmith, was arrested this morning by Court Officer Albert Duffy and arraigned before Magistrate Voorhees in the Grant street police court, charged with abandonment by his wife, Erika. Both are Danes. The husband said that his wife left him several months ago and told him that she never wanted to see his face again. Now she wants support for her two children, she says. Wartschow said he could pay $2.50 a week and his offer was accepted, husband and wife leaving the court room together.

Source: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle - 18th February 1901

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DESIGNER OF SILVERWARE AND STAMPS

North Attleboro, Massachusetts


Percy Ball, designer for Frank M. Whiting & Co., has made an original design that is quite unique, which is used on the stamps in the penny savings system established in the public schools.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 20th May 1908

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CALVIN TIFFANY

South Manchester, Connecticut


Judge Townsend, in the United States District Court at New Haven, on the 5th, gave a hearing on the motion of creditors of Calvin M. Tiffany, of South Manchester, bankrupt, to have the sale to M. S. Chapman of certain property of Mr. Tiffany set aside. Mr. Tiffany was engaged in the jewelry business at the time he went into bankruptcy some months ago. Mr. Watkins was appointed trustee of the estate. He disposed of the stock of jewelry to Mr. Chapman for $1,700 and Mr. Tiffany went back into the store and conducted the business. The creditors claim that Mr. Watkins could have obtained more for the stock than he did, and it is their desire that the sale to Mr. Chapman be declared void. The creditors are Henry Green, of Cambridge. Mass.; A. T. Morrill, of Boston; Morrill Brothers Company, of Boston; International Trust Company, of Boston; J. B. Humphrey, of Somerville, Mass., and the Crescent Watch Case Company, of New Jersey.

Source: The Jewelers' Review - 12th April 1899

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THE TRADE IN SWITZERLAND

Geneva


The "Times" correspondent observes that among the signs of returning business prosperity in Switzerland may be noted the facts that the receipts of the railways for the past year exceed those of 1879 by two million francs, and that the watch trade has lately become so active that manufacturers are raising their prices for unfinished watch movements by 80 per cent., and for finished watches 30 per cent. This movement has probably been hastened by the burning down at Beaucourt, in the French Jura, of one of the largest watch-movement factories in Europe, whereby Swiss manufacturers have greatly benefited. The Geneva gold chain trade is also very active, and as the demand comes principally from Italy it may be taken for granted that the condition of that country is equally improving, for people do not buy watches and gold chains unless they have money to spare.

Source: The Horological Journal - March 1881

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HODENPYL, TUNISON & SHIEBLER

New York


Pierre Trainque Tunison, a resident for forty-six years at 193 Gates avenue, died there Saturday from an attack of apoplexy. Services tonight will be conducted by the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, and the interment tomorrow will be in Evergreens Cemetery. Mr. Tunison was born in Manhattan on May 30, 1831, and was the son of the late Garrett B. and Isabelle Trainque Tunison. He was from 1868 until last spring, when he retired from business, a jewelry manufacturer of Manhattan and long a member of the firm of Hodenpyl, Tunison & Shiebler. He was for a long time the treasurer of the Jewelers Association and Board of Trade of Manhattan, and later was the secretary and treasurer of the Silverware Manufacturers Association. He was formerly the superintendent of the Sunday school of the New York Avenue M.E. Church, and latterly belonged to the Summerfield M.E. Church. He is survived by his widow, Adelia Schreiner; four sons, Percy of Cleveland, Ohio; Paul of Hillsdale, N.J.; Irving of Rockville Centre, L.I., and George of Westfield, N.J., and a daughter, Miss Edith Tunison.

Source: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle - 21st October 1912

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DEATH OF STEPHEN ALBRO

Providence, Rhode Island


Providence, R. I., Oct. 2.—Stephen Albro, formerly of the large manufacturing jewelry concern of S. Albro & Co., died at Butler’s Asylum for the Insane, late Saturday night, after an illness of more than a year. While his death had been expected for several weeks it came suddenly at the
end, as few of his most intimate acquaintances were aware that he was so low.

The deceased was born in 1839 at South Portsmouth, R. I. In 1867 he removed to this city and opened a large gents’ furnishing goods store on Westminster St., building up one of the largest businesses in that line in the city. He continued here until about 1875, when he sold out and changed to the manufacturing jewelry business.

His firm soon took high rank among similar concerns of New England. On Oct. 1, 1891, the name of the firm was changed to the S. Albro Co., with acts of incorporation under the laws of the State of New York, Mr. Albro being president. Early in the Spring of 1892, Mr. Albro began to show indications that he was suffering from brain troubles which rapidly developed until he became very violent and about the first of March, 1892, it was found necessary to place him under restraint and treatment. He was accordingly removed to the Butler’s Asylum where he has since been an inmate.

The deceased was one of the best known jewelers in this city, and was widely connected with social life of Providence. He was an active member of the New England Manufacturing Jewelers’ Association, of the Manufacturing Jewelers’ Board of Trade, of the West Side Social Club, the Elmwood Club, the Pomham Club and the Union Club, and a member of St. John’s Lodge and other Masonic fraternities of Newport. He leaves a widow and one child to mourn his loss. His funeral will be solemnized from Belmont Chapel, Newport, at 12.30 o’clock Tuesday


Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 4th October 1893

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WHITING Mfg. Co.

Bridgeport, Connecticut


Preliminary sketches of the new factory of the Whiting Mfg. Co., to be built at Bridgeport, Conn., have been prepared by F. A. Wing, the engineer of the company. Twelve different contractors have been asked to submit estimates upon the factory. Five steel and brick buildings will be constructed, with a floor space of over 75,000 feet. A boiler house and a 500 H.P. engine will be installed. The Whiting Mfg. Co., one of the largest manufacturers of sterling silver ware in the United States, are now located in New York City.

Source: The Brass World and Platers' Guide - July 1909

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THE IMPERIAL CASTING ROOMS

Providence, Rhode Island


The Imperial Casting Rooms, of Providence, R.I., have bought out the Providence Jewelers' Casting Company and are at present engaged in making fine castings of silver and bronze.

Source: The Metal Industry - May 1905

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WORKERS AT BERNARD RICE'S SONS REJECT UNION

Brooklyn, New York


Left-wing Local 475 of the C.I.O. United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers Union was out of another Brooklyn industrial plant today, having been disowned by employes of Bernard Rice's Sons, Inc., silverware manufacturers at 139 N. 10th St.

In a National Labor Relations Board election, 95 of the 178 eligible employes voted for the International Jewelry Workers Union, A.F.L., as their representative. There were 60 votes against the A.F.L. affiliate and two ballots were voided.

The jewelry workers union was the only one on the ballot, the C.I.O. union's leaders having failed to sign non-Communist affidavits required by the Taft-Hartley Law to qualify for NLRB recognition.

Local 475 has lost more than half a dozen similar elections at other borough plants. All the earlier losses, however were to the C.I.O. United Auto Workers. The electrical workers union has represented the Rice firm's workers for the past 12 years.


Source: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle - 19th March 1949

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AXEL G. WAHLBERG

Boston, Massachusetts


Boston, Mass., Mar. 7.—Axel G. Wahlberg, a well-known manufacturing and repairing jeweler and silversmith of this city, died suddenly last Tuesday morning of heart failure at his home in the Roslindale district, this city.

Mr. Wahlberg was a native of Sweden, and came to Boston when a young man, after learning his trade in the old country. He entered the employ of Norling & Bloom, remaining with them upward of a score of years, and started in business for himself in Province Court about 18 years ago. Two years ago he removed to the Washington building, 387 Washington St., where he had his workshop up to the time of his death. On Monday he was at his place of business as usual, but was stricken after his return home and expired in a short time. The funeral took place to-day from the residence in Roslindale.

Mr. Wahlberg was 63 years of age. He leaves a large family. In the trade he was known as a skilled workman, and was highly esteemed by the dealers whose requirements in the repairing line brought them into business relations with him.


Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 13th March 1907

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SKINNELL SILVER PLATING Co.

New York


The Skinnell Silver Plating Co., Inc., New York City, has been incorporated by D. A. Skinnell, R. Skinnell and E. H. Mahoney, with a capital of $5,000, to engage in gold and silver plating.

Source: Metal Record and Electroplater - June 1916

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DEATH OF GEORGE T. MOORE

Manhattan, New York


George T. Moore, 93, of 121 97th St.. retired silversmith and engraver who years ago founded the firm of George T. Moore & Sons, Inc., Manhattan, died, Friday in Clearwater, Fla., where he had been since November. He was a native of England.

Coming to the United States as a youth, Mr. Moore became a skilled silver designer, all of his work being done by hand. The insignia of both the New York Police and Fire Departments were designed by him. He retired about 10 years ago and had traveled extensively since.

For many years be had a country home in Amityville, and until a year ago, despite his age, drove his own car about town. He made the trip to the South by plane last Fall alone.

A member of Dongan Council, Knights of Columbus, since 1904, Mr. Moore was a past grand knight of the unit. He also was a 4th degree member of the Long Island General Assembly, K. of C. His wife. Mrs. Mary Millicent Moore, died in 1938.

He is survived by a son, James E., president of the silversmith firm; three daughters, Mrs. Marl C. Bown, Mrs. Ethel M. Pape and Mrs. Florence E. Stapleton; a sister, Mother Elizabeth of the College of the Sacred Heart, Cochabamba, Bolivia; eight grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

The funeral will be held Tuesday from the residence. A solemn requiem mass will be offered at 10 a.m. in St. Patrick's R. C. Church, 4th Ave. and 95th St. Burial will be in St. Charles Cemetery, Pinelawn.


Source: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle - 1st March 1953

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COUNTERFEIT GOLD PIECE MADE FROM PLATINUM

Louisville, Kentucky


Manufacturing jewelers of Louisville are much pleased with the big drop in platinum which came down almost as fast as it went up. Platinum, which was recently quoted at $125 an ounce, is now worth about $80. However, the demand for platinum work continued even while the market was up. This metal is now one of the most popular and many fine pieces are being made from it. A counterfeit gold piece, made of platinum at a time when platinum was considered an ordinary metal, recently brought almost $30 whereas its value when made was only a few cents.

Source: The Metal Industry - March 1916

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JEWELRY STORE FILLS WITH CEMENT

Omaha, Nebraska


With a great crash an immense section of the west wall of the building occupied by the A. F. Smith Co., 1513 Harney St., Omaha, Nebr., fell at five o'clock Friday afternoon, owing to the pressure of the cement being forced down a caisson of the City National Bank building. The damage has not been estimated, but will probably be about $2,000. As additional support for the bank’s new skyscraper, now being constructed, hollow pillars have been thrust far into the earth, directly alongside the Smith building. These pillars have but three sides, the brick wall of the Smith building forming the fourth side. The cement which was poured into one of these caissons Friday afternoon, however, proved too heavy for the brick wall of the Smith building, and it broke through. A. F. Smith, proprietor, and Mr. Brunner, manager, together with several employes of the firm, were in the rear of the store when the accident occurred, or no doubt they would have been killed. The brick wall, together with large quantities of the cement and mortar were thrown clear across the room, crushing several display tables, which fortunately had no goods on them. The big safes in which the company’s stock is kept were open at the time, and the force of the collapse filled them full of mortar, requiring the aid of an expert to repair them so that they could be locked. The workmen who were pouring the cement into the caisson could not understand for some time why the hole could not be filled up, until Mr. Smith dashed into the street and called to them, since every deposit they made was falling directly into his store. The foreman of the bank’s gang of workmen immediately put a large force at work to bolster up the shattered wall and sweep out the jewelry store, which took until midnight. The Smith Co. has been asked to turn in its bill for damages in full for payment.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 9th February 1910

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DEATH OF HAYDEN W. WHEELER

New York


WHEELER - Mr. Hayden W.; 274 Washington avenue, Oct. 28 Mr. Wheeler was a prominent diamond merchant of Maiden Lane and one of the oldest and best-known residents of this borough, which had been his home for half a century. Besides a widow, Mr. Wheeler leaves two sons, Mr. Willard H. Wheeler, of Brooklyn, and Mr. Frank L. Wheeler, of Seattle, also two daughters, Mrs. Amos Peck Hawley, of Springfield, and Mrs. Mabel Wheeler Bailey, who lives at home.

Source: Brooklyn Life - 5th November 1904

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JOSEPH B. SHERMAN

Meriden, Connecticut


Joseph B. Sherman, Meriden, Conn., who has resigned his position as secretary of the Meriden Cutlery Co., is about to manufacture sterling silver goods in a factory of his own, at 23 Randolph Ave.

Source: Metal Record and Electroplater - June 1916

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