R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. - Wallingford, Conn. - 1893
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R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. - Wallingford, Conn. - 1893
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R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co.. Wallingford, are now employing more help than ever before for this season of the year. There are now at work at this company's plant some 600 employes, being a few less than are usually employed in the rushing Fall trade. The company are still running the steel department 11 hours a day.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 15th March 1899
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Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 15th March 1899
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R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. - Wallingford, Conn. - 1911
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Suit Over Use of the Word "Rogers" in Stamping Silver Plate
Hartford, Conn., Nov. 19.—The Wm. Rogers Mfg. Co., of Hartford, through their attorneys, Chamberlain & Mills, and Ailing, Webb & Moorehouse, the latter of this city, have commenced suit against R. Wallace & Sons Mfg Co., of Wallingford, demanding $25,000 damages and asking for an injunction restraining them from using the stamp of "Wm. A. Rogers" and any stamp embracing the word "Rogers" in connection with silver plated table ware.
Judge Prentice, of the Superior Court, granted a temporary injunction which was served upon Henry J. Wallace, secretary of R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., Saturday.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 21st November 1894
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Hartford, Conn., Nov. 19.—The Wm. Rogers Mfg. Co., of Hartford, through their attorneys, Chamberlain & Mills, and Ailing, Webb & Moorehouse, the latter of this city, have commenced suit against R. Wallace & Sons Mfg Co., of Wallingford, demanding $25,000 damages and asking for an injunction restraining them from using the stamp of "Wm. A. Rogers" and any stamp embracing the word "Rogers" in connection with silver plated table ware.
Judge Prentice, of the Superior Court, granted a temporary injunction which was served upon Henry J. Wallace, secretary of R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., Saturday.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 21st November 1894
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R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. - Wallingford, Conn. - 1921
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Chicago
Wm. Barket, of the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., is now making a business trip through the northwest.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 29th November 1922
F. A. Wallace, president of the R. Wallace & Son's Mfg. Co., is visiting at the Chicago office of this concern this week, and is also calling on his many friends here.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 29th November 1922
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Wm. Barket, of the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., is now making a business trip through the northwest.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 29th November 1922
F. A. Wallace, president of the R. Wallace & Son's Mfg. Co., is visiting at the Chicago office of this concern this week, and is also calling on his many friends here.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 29th November 1922
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R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. - New York, Chicago, San Francisco - 1920
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FRANK ALBERT WALLACE
WALLACE, FRANK ALBERT, president of the R. Wallace and Son's Manufacturing Company, of Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut, was born in that town September 23rd, 1857. He is a descendant of James Wallace, who came from Scotland to Ireland and later to Blandford, Massachusetts, in early colonial days. His father was Robert Wallace, one of the most progressive and prominent manufacturers of his day, a man whose originality and persistent application left a marked influence on the history of American industry. He was the pioneer manufacturer of German silver in America, and started the largest concern devoted to the manufacture of flat silverware in the world. Mr. Wallace's mother was Harriet Moulthroup, a woman who exerted a powerful influence upon the moral life of her son.
As a boy Mr Wallace was healthy and strong. He was brought up in the country, attended the common schools there, and always had plenty of work to do outside of school hours.
In 1873 Mr. Wallace began his life work as a manufacturer by entering his father's employ. The concern then manufactured exclusively for the Meriden Britannia Company, but in 1876 the business took on much larger proportions and began the rapid development which has made it the largest of its kind in the world. From the moment the company started to market its own productions Mr. Wallace was determined to win the utmost success as a silversmith, and the fact that he is now president of an industry that has salesrooms in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and London shows the full realization of this desire for success. Mr. Wallace has been Workman, director, superintendent, secretary and, since 1892, president of the company, and the growth of the business has been as rapid and as just as his own rise in position. His career proves the value of a thorough mastery of one business and of a single aim in life, that of doing one thing thoroughly and well. Mr. Wallace has never held public office, though he is a staunch Republican. His business interests, outside of his own company, are presidency and directorship in the First National Bank of Wallingford and directorship in the Wallingford Company. He is also a director in the New Haven County Anti-tuberculosis Society. He has been president of the Wallace Purchasing Company since 1894.
In private life Mr. Wallace has much that is of interest. In creed he is a Congregationalist. Socially he is a member of the Union League Club of New Haven. His favorite diversions are fly fishing and automobiling. In June, 1884, Mr. Wallace married Zula Custer, and in December, 1898, he married his second wife, Sarah Rose Manning. He has four children, Barbara Manning, Jean Atwater, Robert, and Floyd.
Source: Men of Mark in Connecticut - Norris Galpin Osborn - 1905
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WALLACE, FRANK ALBERT, president of the R. Wallace and Son's Manufacturing Company, of Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut, was born in that town September 23rd, 1857. He is a descendant of James Wallace, who came from Scotland to Ireland and later to Blandford, Massachusetts, in early colonial days. His father was Robert Wallace, one of the most progressive and prominent manufacturers of his day, a man whose originality and persistent application left a marked influence on the history of American industry. He was the pioneer manufacturer of German silver in America, and started the largest concern devoted to the manufacture of flat silverware in the world. Mr. Wallace's mother was Harriet Moulthroup, a woman who exerted a powerful influence upon the moral life of her son.
As a boy Mr Wallace was healthy and strong. He was brought up in the country, attended the common schools there, and always had plenty of work to do outside of school hours.
In 1873 Mr. Wallace began his life work as a manufacturer by entering his father's employ. The concern then manufactured exclusively for the Meriden Britannia Company, but in 1876 the business took on much larger proportions and began the rapid development which has made it the largest of its kind in the world. From the moment the company started to market its own productions Mr. Wallace was determined to win the utmost success as a silversmith, and the fact that he is now president of an industry that has salesrooms in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and London shows the full realization of this desire for success. Mr. Wallace has been Workman, director, superintendent, secretary and, since 1892, president of the company, and the growth of the business has been as rapid and as just as his own rise in position. His career proves the value of a thorough mastery of one business and of a single aim in life, that of doing one thing thoroughly and well. Mr. Wallace has never held public office, though he is a staunch Republican. His business interests, outside of his own company, are presidency and directorship in the First National Bank of Wallingford and directorship in the Wallingford Company. He is also a director in the New Haven County Anti-tuberculosis Society. He has been president of the Wallace Purchasing Company since 1894.
In private life Mr. Wallace has much that is of interest. In creed he is a Congregationalist. Socially he is a member of the Union League Club of New Haven. His favorite diversions are fly fishing and automobiling. In June, 1884, Mr. Wallace married Zula Custer, and in December, 1898, he married his second wife, Sarah Rose Manning. He has four children, Barbara Manning, Jean Atwater, Robert, and Floyd.
Source: Men of Mark in Connecticut - Norris Galpin Osborn - 1905
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R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. - Wallingford, Conn. - 1911
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OBITUARY
Col. Walter J. Leavenworth, treasurer and manager of R. Wallace & Sons, Wallingford, Conn., died on Jan. 20th, after a brief illness.
Source: The Brass World and Platers Guide - February 1906
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Col. Walter J. Leavenworth, treasurer and manager of R. Wallace & Sons, Wallingford, Conn., died on Jan. 20th, after a brief illness.
Source: The Brass World and Platers Guide - February 1906
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R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. - Wallingford, Conn. - 1921
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New Administration Building of R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co, Wallingford, Conn, a Model Structure
Wallingford. Conn., Oct. 7.—The new administration building of the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., at Wallingford. Conn., is receiving much favorable comment from visitors. It is located on a plot of land fronting: about 800 feet on the street and running back from that to the nearest building about 150 feet. For several years this plot of land has been beautified by landscape work through the efforts of the late Henry R. Wallace.
A double entrance driveway leads from the street to the front entrance. As one enters the lobby of the buildine, at the left is a telephone switchboard. The vestibule and lobby is finished in imitation caen stone, The lobby proper is 14 feet by 12 feet long, but the impression gained here is one of considerable space due to the ingenuity of the architect.
On either side of the lobby is the reception room, 14 by 16 feet. Immediately adjoining the reception room on the left of the lobby is the comptroller's office and adjoining this, the treasurer's office. The president's office occupies the northeast corner of the building. Opening from the president's office to the south is a small hallway which leads into the directors' room.
Immediately adjoining the reception room on the right is the purchasing agent's office and in the northwest corner, the office manager's office. All of these private offices are on the north side of the building where the daylight is ideal and they are equipped with American walnut furniture.
Opening from the office manager's office is a small office occupied by the head of the dictaphone and stenographic department. Directly across from the purchasing agent's office is his department, with necessary clerks and records.
The arrangement of the second floor is practically identical with that of the first, except that the sales manager is located immediately over the lobby. On the east of his office is that occupied by the advertising manager and immediately adjoining him is the advertising department in which are his clerks, records, etc. On the west side of the sales manager is an office occupied by his assistant and immediately adjoining this is a room occupied by the clerical force for the sales department.
All the partitions between offices are of oak panelled 45 inches from the floor and from there to the cornice, plate glass, so that light comes into the room from all directions. The only room in the building which has solid walls is the directors' room. The walls and ceiling are painted, the side walls being done in several colors, mottled and glazed. The ceiling is in an ivory tint with simple stenciled ornamental borders, and the lighting fixtures for the building are all especially designed.
The building is equipped with a vacuum cleaning system, hot water heating system, and an air washing and ventilating system, giving positive ventilation. There are drinking fountains, two on each floor placed in a convenient manner.
The floors are covered with a quarter inch brown "battleship" linoleum. In the basement of the building there is a club room, reading room and lunch room for the men; rest room, reading and lunch room for the girls, kitchen, storage room for stationery, receiving room for merchandise of any kind belonging to the Administration building, instrument room for switchboards, transformers, etc.
The floors beneath the linoleum are concrete and in them are laid all the pipes and wires for telephones, dictaphones, etc. The building is fire proof construction, but in addition is equipped with complete sprinkler system. In every private office the window is recessed in such a manner as to provide two wardrobe rooms so that coat and hat trees will not disfigure in these rooms.
The outside of the building is fully as interesting as the inside. The foundation, cornice, arches over the windows of the first floor, coping, etc., are all of artificial stone which is made of white Portland cement and marble chips. All the bricks used on the front and ends of the building are tapestry bricks in five colors laid in drab mortar with raked joints.
The new plant of the concern at Littleton, N. H., which will be occupied about Nov. 1 is a modern fire proof concrete building which is 136 by 36 feet and two stories high.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 13th October 1920
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Wallingford. Conn., Oct. 7.—The new administration building of the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., at Wallingford. Conn., is receiving much favorable comment from visitors. It is located on a plot of land fronting: about 800 feet on the street and running back from that to the nearest building about 150 feet. For several years this plot of land has been beautified by landscape work through the efforts of the late Henry R. Wallace.
A double entrance driveway leads from the street to the front entrance. As one enters the lobby of the buildine, at the left is a telephone switchboard. The vestibule and lobby is finished in imitation caen stone, The lobby proper is 14 feet by 12 feet long, but the impression gained here is one of considerable space due to the ingenuity of the architect.
On either side of the lobby is the reception room, 14 by 16 feet. Immediately adjoining the reception room on the left of the lobby is the comptroller's office and adjoining this, the treasurer's office. The president's office occupies the northeast corner of the building. Opening from the president's office to the south is a small hallway which leads into the directors' room.
Immediately adjoining the reception room on the right is the purchasing agent's office and in the northwest corner, the office manager's office. All of these private offices are on the north side of the building where the daylight is ideal and they are equipped with American walnut furniture.
Opening from the office manager's office is a small office occupied by the head of the dictaphone and stenographic department. Directly across from the purchasing agent's office is his department, with necessary clerks and records.
The arrangement of the second floor is practically identical with that of the first, except that the sales manager is located immediately over the lobby. On the east of his office is that occupied by the advertising manager and immediately adjoining him is the advertising department in which are his clerks, records, etc. On the west side of the sales manager is an office occupied by his assistant and immediately adjoining this is a room occupied by the clerical force for the sales department.
All the partitions between offices are of oak panelled 45 inches from the floor and from there to the cornice, plate glass, so that light comes into the room from all directions. The only room in the building which has solid walls is the directors' room. The walls and ceiling are painted, the side walls being done in several colors, mottled and glazed. The ceiling is in an ivory tint with simple stenciled ornamental borders, and the lighting fixtures for the building are all especially designed.
The building is equipped with a vacuum cleaning system, hot water heating system, and an air washing and ventilating system, giving positive ventilation. There are drinking fountains, two on each floor placed in a convenient manner.
The floors are covered with a quarter inch brown "battleship" linoleum. In the basement of the building there is a club room, reading room and lunch room for the men; rest room, reading and lunch room for the girls, kitchen, storage room for stationery, receiving room for merchandise of any kind belonging to the Administration building, instrument room for switchboards, transformers, etc.
The floors beneath the linoleum are concrete and in them are laid all the pipes and wires for telephones, dictaphones, etc. The building is fire proof construction, but in addition is equipped with complete sprinkler system. In every private office the window is recessed in such a manner as to provide two wardrobe rooms so that coat and hat trees will not disfigure in these rooms.
The outside of the building is fully as interesting as the inside. The foundation, cornice, arches over the windows of the first floor, coping, etc., are all of artificial stone which is made of white Portland cement and marble chips. All the bricks used on the front and ends of the building are tapestry bricks in five colors laid in drab mortar with raked joints.
The new plant of the concern at Littleton, N. H., which will be occupied about Nov. 1 is a modern fire proof concrete building which is 136 by 36 feet and two stories high.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 13th October 1920
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R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. - Wallingford, Conn. - 1898
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At R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co's factory, improvements are being made at the boiler house where the recent explosion occurred. A large addition is being built on the east side of the present boiler room, in which will he placed, in the Spring, three new tubular boilers, of 111 horsepower each. These will make, with the five boilers now in use, a boiler capacity of 533 horse-power.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 13th December 1893
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Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 13th December 1893
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An exceedingly beautiful volume of illustrations of sterling silver ware has just been issued by the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., Wallingford, Conn. Its 75 pages are handsomely bound in board covers embellished with an artistic border in silver. Specially notable among the numerous photogravures and engravings are the "Waverley" and the " Louvre" patterns, marvels of beauty in the field of spoon work. The popularity of the "Waverley" in particular has necessitated the constant addition of new pieces, until now the line is complete in every particular. In the "Louvre," buyers will find numerous commendable new and original features, which give this pattern a distinctive character together with completeness and elegance. In the dainty photogravure illustrations of chests and trunks the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. can hardly do justice to the very comprehensive selection carried in stock by them. Particular attention should also be given the greatly increased line of sterling silver novelties. The book should be in the hands of every wide-awake jeweler.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 1st November 1893
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Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 1st November 1893
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S.S. LEVIATHAN
Few realize the thought and energy necessary to equip the various dining rooms of one of our modern floating palaces with the articles needed for serving and consuming the great quantity of food used during every voyage. The Steamship Leviathan is 956 feet in length and the magnitude of equipping her can best be realized when it is considered that the silverware which will be used by her passengers and crew, if laid in a straight line end to end, would reach a distance of equal of forty times the length of the ship. It is hard to visualize a line of silverware 7 1/5 miles long, but that of the Leviathan would reach that distance with a few pieces to spare. The silver contract went to the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. Silversmiths, Wallingford, Conn.
There are many things that enter into the purchase of this vast order of silverware and many influences which such an order has upon several of our leading industries. For the more than 50,000 pieces of flatware four to five tons of metal will go into the 9,000 to 10,000 pieces of hollow ware. In addition to this metal there would be used approximately 650 feet of solid nickel silver rod and one and a half tons of nickel silver wire to be used for mounts and other applied parts. As nickel silver is not manufactured by the manufacturers of silverware, this means that the order will have a direct effect upon the rolling mills from whence this metal is obtained.
Each piece of this service will have the Leviathan crest, applied, stamped or etched. It will require from 10,000 to 12,000 of these crests to complete the order for silverware alone.
The crest will be stamped on all flatware items. Two patterns of hollow ware will be used, a fluted oval design for the restaurant, and a plain round design for the first and second-class dining salons and the officers’ and engineers’ mess.
Three flatware patterns will be used. In the restaurant a beautiful new period creation which will be in perfect harmony with the fluted oval hollow ware and is sure to meet with enthusiastic appreciation.
Source: New York Hotel Review - 4th November 1922
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Few realize the thought and energy necessary to equip the various dining rooms of one of our modern floating palaces with the articles needed for serving and consuming the great quantity of food used during every voyage. The Steamship Leviathan is 956 feet in length and the magnitude of equipping her can best be realized when it is considered that the silverware which will be used by her passengers and crew, if laid in a straight line end to end, would reach a distance of equal of forty times the length of the ship. It is hard to visualize a line of silverware 7 1/5 miles long, but that of the Leviathan would reach that distance with a few pieces to spare. The silver contract went to the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. Silversmiths, Wallingford, Conn.
There are many things that enter into the purchase of this vast order of silverware and many influences which such an order has upon several of our leading industries. For the more than 50,000 pieces of flatware four to five tons of metal will go into the 9,000 to 10,000 pieces of hollow ware. In addition to this metal there would be used approximately 650 feet of solid nickel silver rod and one and a half tons of nickel silver wire to be used for mounts and other applied parts. As nickel silver is not manufactured by the manufacturers of silverware, this means that the order will have a direct effect upon the rolling mills from whence this metal is obtained.
Each piece of this service will have the Leviathan crest, applied, stamped or etched. It will require from 10,000 to 12,000 of these crests to complete the order for silverware alone.
The crest will be stamped on all flatware items. Two patterns of hollow ware will be used, a fluted oval design for the restaurant, and a plain round design for the first and second-class dining salons and the officers’ and engineers’ mess.
Three flatware patterns will be used. In the restaurant a beautiful new period creation which will be in perfect harmony with the fluted oval hollow ware and is sure to meet with enthusiastic appreciation.
Source: New York Hotel Review - 4th November 1922
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It would appear that the restocking of the silverware following the refit of the S.S. Leviathan (see above post) didn't come a moment too soon. Below is a inventory of the silverware as on the 20th January 1920, it makes for interesting reading:
Bearing in mind the ship was capable of transporting 3,000 persons at a time, the first-class section was down to its last three coffee spoons and the last remaining sugar bowl. The second class section was the place to be, they had four coffee spoons.
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Bearing in mind the ship was capable of transporting 3,000 persons at a time, the first-class section was down to its last three coffee spoons and the last remaining sugar bowl. The second class section was the place to be, they had four coffee spoons.
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R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. - Wallingford, Conn. - 1913
R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. - Wallingford, Conn. - 1913
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Exhibits at the A.N.R.J.A. Convention
The R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., Wallingford, Conn., as usual at A. N. R. J. A. conventions, had one of the finest exhibits. It was in Room 762. The exhibit this year featured the Old English service pattern, known as the Wallace "Sheraton" secvice. In the production of this service the company has built on an artistic foundation, which for more than a century has given delight and satisfaction to succeeding generations. Sheraton was the apostle of the severe taste which followed the Rococo leanings of Chippendale. Under the inspiration of Sheraton's words and works, the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. has designed a service which embodies the characteristics of his most beautiful creations and the pieces are of such enduring plate that they will become treasured heirlooms for future generations to use. The "Cleo" line of sterling toilet ware and "Vesta" line of grey oxidized finish were also shown, as was the "Dorothy Q" plated flat ware line. The latter will be ready for delivery Oct. 15.
The "Princess Mary" patterns in sterling silver also attracted considerable attention from the many guests who visited "Sandusky Bill," who was in charge of the exhibit, assisted by his son.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 6th September 1922
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The R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., Wallingford, Conn., as usual at A. N. R. J. A. conventions, had one of the finest exhibits. It was in Room 762. The exhibit this year featured the Old English service pattern, known as the Wallace "Sheraton" secvice. In the production of this service the company has built on an artistic foundation, which for more than a century has given delight and satisfaction to succeeding generations. Sheraton was the apostle of the severe taste which followed the Rococo leanings of Chippendale. Under the inspiration of Sheraton's words and works, the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. has designed a service which embodies the characteristics of his most beautiful creations and the pieces are of such enduring plate that they will become treasured heirlooms for future generations to use. The "Cleo" line of sterling toilet ware and "Vesta" line of grey oxidized finish were also shown, as was the "Dorothy Q" plated flat ware line. The latter will be ready for delivery Oct. 15.
The "Princess Mary" patterns in sterling silver also attracted considerable attention from the many guests who visited "Sandusky Bill," who was in charge of the exhibit, assisted by his son.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 6th September 1922
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R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. - Wallingford, Conn. - 1913