Information Regarding R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co.

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Wallace Silversmiths - Wallingford, Conn. - 1940

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Wallace Silversmiths - Wallingford, Conn. - 1940

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Wallace Silversmiths - Wallingford, Conn. - 1939

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Wallace Names Sales Managers For Pacific, Mid-West and East

WALLINGFORD, Conn.— R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. announced last month that with the idea of carrying out its fair trade policies it has decided to have three sales managers across the country, whose duty it will be to work closely with the firm’s salesmen and customers in doing a better selling and merchandising job. Each sales manager will be responsible for company policies in his division as well as sales.

Tom McCready, who has been sales manager for many years, was given his choice of districts and has chosen the Pacific division in view of his many years’ experience with Wallace on the West Coast. H. E. Reich will continue as manager of the Midwest division with headquarters at Chicago, and M. L. Gundlach will assume charge of the Eastern division in New York.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - October 1939

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Wallace Silversmiths - Wallingford, Conn. - 1939

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Wallace Silversmiths - Wallingford, Conn. - 1959

ROMANCE OF THE SEA

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Inspired by the matchless wood carving of Antonio Stradivari, the new pattern presentation by R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., Inc., is named in honor of the celebrated violin maker, whose death occurred just 200 years ago, in 1737. Full of grace and elegance, it has the beauty and distinctiveness of hand undercutting, in machine production. Promotion will include full page advertisements in six or more leading national magazines, a painting by Oren Ross Waggener for jewelers windows and stores and handsome display accessories. An attractive brochure entitled "An Inspired Masterpiece" describes the Stradivarius pattern.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - February 1937

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R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. - Wallingford, Conn. - 1937


R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. - Wallingford, Conn. - 1937

STRADIVARI

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NEW YORK

R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., Inc., have moved to a new display room at 362 Fifth Ave., near 34th St. These new galleries are of unusual interest. The whole scheme is refreshingly modern and many new and unusual display features are exciting comment.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - March 1937

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R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., Inc., Wallingford, Conn., have announced the election of Clifford S. Thompson as assistant treasurer. For the past few years Mr. Thompson has been comptroller of the company, with which he has been identified for nearly 20 years.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - March 1937

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Fred Bleuher, formerly an official in the firm of Stevens & Hanover, premium specialists, has joined the Chicago sales staff of R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. H. E. Reich, Jr. of the company’s Chicago sales staff has been transferred to the Pacific Coast division. Roy Dable has also been added to the San Francisco sales staff, and Norman Daniels of the San Francisco office staff has been advanced to the sales staff.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - March 1937

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Design Patent for ‘Stradivari’

The new Stradivari pattern in sterling silver, by R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., Inc., Wallingford, Conn., has been awarded a mechanical patent by the United States Patent Office as a basic patentable improvement in the art of spoon and fork making. It has also been awarded a design patent. To introduce ‘“Stradivari,’ the company will launch a heavy Spring campaign in national magazines. Charles H. Gregory, sales promotion manager, announces ‘Stradivari’ will be featured until June in a list which includes Harper’s Bazaar, House and Garden, House Beautiful, Town and Country and Vogue. Supplementary promotion will include reproductions of a painting by Oren Ross Waggener.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - March 1937

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R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. - Wallingford, Conn. - 1935

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Wallace Silversmiths - Wallingford, Conn. - 1939

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Wallace Mfg. Co. Boosts Pay

WALLINGFORD, CONN.—A pay increase of five per cent has been announced for hour and piece workers employed by R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. Charles Gregory, sales promotion manager, said that the company will pay time and a half for all time over 40 hours a week, and that a bonus equal to a week’s pay has been given the hour and piece employes.

In addition, an extra week’s pay went to all salaried employes of the company receiving up to $2,400 a year.

The five per cent pay increase was effective Jan. 1. The bonus was paid Dec. 18.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - January 1937

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R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. - Wallingford, Conn. - 1936

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Problem: Find the Split Pea

In the midst of research on the life and times of Sir Christopher Wren and Grinling Gibbons, his associate and master carver, R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., Wallingford, Conn., discovered that Grinling Gibbons was fond of introducing among his carvings of fruits, flowers, birds, vegetables, etc., a split pea, as a kind of signature proving the work to be his. The decoration on the spoons in the silversmiths’ Sir Christopher pattern has the floral motif, on the forks is the fruit motif, and on the knives are both flowers and fruit. The company picked one piece of flatware and among the ornamentation on that piece placed a split pea, which cannot be seen easily with the naked eye but is clearly discernible under a magnifying glass or jeweler’s loupe.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - June 1936

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R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. - Wallingford, Conn. - 1929

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Wallace Silversmiths - Wallingford, Conn. - 1958


Wallace Silversmiths - Wallingford, Conn. - 1958

DAWN STAR

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“The Wallace,” house organ of the R. Wallace & Son Mfg. Co. Wallingford, Conn., has been increased in size beginning with the April issue. It was formerly 4½ x 6 inches, and now is the regular standard magazine size. “A Little Magazine with a Silver Lining” is its publication slogan. It contains articles on the detail of the manufacture of Wallace silver, with pages in half-tones showing a number of their special and standard pieces. From time to time articles will be printed on window displays and knotty advertising problems. Altogether it is an exceptionally interesting and instructive publication.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 1st May 1912

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