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"John C. Moore's Flatware", Spencer Marks Ltd. "A Legacy of Sterling Silver", Tiffany & Co. Silver in America, 1840–1940: a century of splendor, Charles Lane Venable, Dallas Museum of Art, 1995, page 320. Encyclopedia of American Silver Manufacturers, Dorothy T. Rainwater, Judy Redfield, Schiffer Pub., 1998, pages 222–223.
Lunt Silversmiths was an American manufacturer of fine sterling, silver-plate and stainless steel flatware, holloware, and giftware established in 1902. History [ edit ]
The F.W. Smith Silver Company is a historic factory building at 60 Chestnut Street in Gardner, Massachusetts.It was built in 1892 by Frank W. Smith, [2] who had begun manufacturing sterling silver silverware in 1886.
The mark for silver meeting the sterling standard of purity is the Lion Passant, but there have been other variations over the years, most notably the mark indicating Britannia purity. The Britannia standard was obligatory in Britain between 1697 and 1720 to try to help prevent British sterling silver coins from being melted to make silver plate.
Tiffany & Company, Union Square, Manhattan, storage area with porcelain, c. 1887 Tiffany & Co. was founded in 1837 by Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young, [12] in New York City, as a "stationery and fancy goods emporium", with the help of Charles Tiffany's father, who financed the store for only $1,000 with profits from a cotton mill. [13]
Charles Lewis Tiffany (February 15, 1812 – February 18, 1902) was an American businessman and jeweler who founded New York City's Tiffany & Co. in 1837. Known for his jewelry expertise, Tiffany created the country's first retail catalog and introduced the English standard of sterling silver in imported jewelry in 1851.
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