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Birks Group Inc. (formerly Birks & Mayors Inc.) [1] is a designer, manufacturer, and retailer of jewellery, timepieces, silverware and gifts, with stores and manufacturing facilities located in Canada and the United States.
Poole Silver Company exhibit. Poole Silver Company was an American silver manufacturing company, active in Taunton, Massachusetts from 1892 to 1971.. The Poole Silver Company was formed in 1892 by George Poole and Edward Roche in Taunton as Poole, Roche & Co., then established as a corporation on May 21, 1895, as an early manufacturer of silver products made with electroplating techniques.
In four years, the company went from $159,000 a year to nearly $4 million in sales. The company moved several times, each time to larger space, at Bessemer Avenue, Holbrook Street, and Gallimore Dairy Road. [3] [4] In 1989, sales were over $9 million, and the company added flatware, also buying its current location on Knox Road in McLeansville. [3]
Standing Cup by the William B. Durgin Company, gold, circa 1900. The William B. Durgin Company (1853–1924) was a noted American sterling silver manufacturer based in Concord, New Hampshire, and one of the largest flatware and hollowware manufacturers in the United States. Over the period 1905–1924 it was merged into the Gorham Manufacturing ...
In 1902, George C. Lunt, an engraver in the A .F. Towle & Son company, bought the business and renamed it Rogers, Lunt and Bowlen Co. The company has remained in the Lunt family hands since the founding. [1] In 1935, the name was changed to Lunt Silversmiths.
Textron purchased the company in 1967, a move that some critics claim decreased quality due to management's lack of understanding of Gorham's specialty, producing high-quality sterling silverware and holloware. [7] Textron began planning to sell the unit in 1988, completing the sale in 1989 to Dansk International Designs.
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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 business continued under a succession of owners until 1958.