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The Derby Silver Co.
| Name | The Derby Silver Co. |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Union Square 3 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Metallwarenfabrik |
| Anmerkungen | Bezeichnet als "Makers of Standard Silver-Plated Ware, Workers of Precious Metals". |
| Quellenangaben | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 266] |
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1884 |
[New York's great industries (1884)] |
1884 |
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| silberplattierte Metallwaren |
1884 |
[New York's great industries (1884)] |
1884 |
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| ZEIT | 1884 |
| THEMA | Firmendarstellung |
| TEXT | The famous Derby Silver Company's large manufactory is the leading industrial interest in the thriving town of Birmingham, Connecticut. It is interesting in this connection to note that the great English city of Birmingham is also widely celebrated for its silversmith's work. As far back as 1846 fifteen thousand ounces of silver were used in the plating of goods in that city, and the product of such establishments as those of Messrs. Collis, Elkington & Co., Hardman, Gough and others, acquired the highest of reputations, so that now upwards of one hundred and fifty thousand ounces of silver are annually consumed in the trade of Birmingham, England. The Derby Silver Company has rendered the beautiful Connecticut town of "Birmingham" equally famous in the new world. Its immense four-story factory is one of the prominent features of the town and one of the largest and best equipped concerns in the country, and gives employment to many hundred skilled hands, while the trade transacted annually is of corresponding magnitude. The company's headquarters and salesrooms in New York are most eligibly and centrally located at No. 3 Union Square, the premises being most magnificently fitted up, and, established in such a prominent part of the city, are a point of interest and attraction to the thousands of our art-loving citizens and visitors.. There is here to be inspected a most complete assortment of the finest electro-plated table ware, including not only all articles for domestic use, but also a great variety of ornamental objets d'art suitable for wedding, birthday and other presents. These goods are an accurate and useful representation of solid silver, possessing all the elements of real silver in lightness, elegance of form and outline, artistic beauty of designs, exquisite finish and lasting durability, and cannot be distinguished from real silver except by reference to the company's trade-mark guarantee. This guarantee is of such an amply convincing and conclusive character that it is worthy of reference. The company says: "In justice to ourselves as well as to our customers, we wish to state that all silver-plated hollow ware or Hat ware bearing our stamp or trade-mark, we GUARANTEE equal in every respect to the best electro-silver-plated ware in the market. Yours respectfully, DERBY SILVER Co." This company is a duly organized incorporation with a capital of three hundred thousand dollars, and the following practically experienced gentlemen form its board of officers: E. DeF. Shelton, President; W. J. Miller, Secretary and Manager; William E. Downes, Treasurer, and C. A. Burr, Assistant Secretary. They form a strong and talented executive whose successful development of their company's trade to its present enormous proportions is the best possible proof of the intrinsic merits of their goods, and of which a full stock can be found in every considerable city and town of the Union. The manager of the New York store is Mr. J. B. Tiffany, a gentleman widely known and highly esteemed throughout commercial circles. His presence at the head of the magnificent establishment in Union Square is alone a sufficient guarantee of the absolute reliability and merits of all goods leaving its doors, and these facts and the beauty of the goods constantly being originated in new designs render it one of the most attractive stores to visit in the metropolis. A special feature of the stock is an assortment of the finest lamps ever designed or manufactured in the United States, and which, as chef d'oevvres in their line, deservedly command the attention of the most critical buyers. In addition to the Union Square establishment the company also has a fine branch store at Chicago and San Francisco. The Derby Silver Co.'s products have ever sustained a national reputation for excellence, and for thorough enterprise, sterling integrity and material success it is in every respect the representative concern of its kind in America to-day. |
| QUELLE | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 266] |
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