Information Regarding William B. Kerr & Co.

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PHILADELPHIA

Among the salesmen seen in town last week were .... Geo. W. Read, of William B. Kerr & Co.

Source: The Jewelers' Review - 6th July 1898

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The Eleder Hickok Co. is the name of a new concern that has been formed to continue the business formerly conducted by the Eleder Co. A corporation has been formed for the manufacture of the highest type of sterling silver hollow-ware and the principal office will be at 23 Prospect Ave. The officers are C. W. Eleder, president; C. W. Hickok, secretary-treasurer, and J. W. Steiwald, vice-president. The corporation has been formed under the New Jersey laws. Mr. Eleder, the president of the new concern, started his career in the jewelry business with Tiffany & Co., in the Forest Hill plant, where he learned his trade and then was with the Wm. B. Kerr Co. and later superintendent for Lebkeulder & Co., which concern was purchased and later run as the Eleder Co. Mr. Hickok, who is well known in the silver trade, was for a time with the Gorham Co. and for a long period of years has been associated with Graff-Washbourne & Dunn. Neat announcements of the formation of the new concern have been sent out to the trade and many friends wish them success in their new venture.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 14th May 1919

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Gorham Co. Issues Unusual Book Describing and Illustrating Toilet Requisites

The Gorham Co., Providence, R. I., has recently released for distribution to the trade a splendid book called “Toilet Requisites by Gorham.” The book itself is as fine a specimen of the printer’s art in color and typographical execution as has been seen in some time.

Portrayed and depicted in the volume which constitutes 86 pages, 12 inches x 15 inches are 54 designs wrought in sterling, and 12 in 14-kt. green gold, by the master craftsmen of the Kerr Division of the Gorham Co. A wide selection of exquisite designs, many of them new to the trade, are presented in this book de luxe, and each design has been given an appropriate name as well as the number previously used for identification.

A page is devoted to each design in dresser silver with the three premiere requisites pictured in actual sizes. Additional pieces in each set are itemized with their costs, and short descriptions of the dominant motifs of the sets are included. All in all, from the brilliant cover of beige and orchid with a varicolored inset of a lady at her dresser table, to the complete index on the last page the Gorham book strikes a new and refreshing level in presentation of high-class lines to the trade.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 10th October 1929

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Cards have been sent out to the trade announcing that the business heretofore conducted under the style of Wm. B. Kerr & Co., Inc., will be continued by the reorganized company of the Wm. B. Kerr Co., with a general office and factory at 144 Orange St., Newark. N. J.. and sales office at 320 5th Ave., New York. The company's distinctive line of silverware will be produced as heretofore.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 30th May 1906

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Samuel D. McChesney, of the William B. Kerr co., was a visitor to the Boston trade during the week.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 13th June 1906

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