Box Small Col. 2

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection primarily documents Melcher’s purchases of goods to sell in his store. It includes printed billheads, bills, drafts, and receipts, which indicate a wide trade with firms in most of New England, and in New York. Melcher purchased such items as knives, cuff pins, coral amulets, ring boxes, chains, earrings, pins for fraternal orders, candlesticks, Parian pitchers, rings (some set with stones), jet jewelry, thimbles, coffin plates, ladles, scissors, buttons, watch fobs, tea...

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For knives and picks, buttons, cuff pins, safety pins, coral armlets, chain, rings, ring boxes, etc. Printed billhead: dealers in gold jewelry and silver goods. The principals were D. C. Percival, Jr., D. Morris, and H. T. Salisbury.

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For cut top enameled item.

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paid for candlesticks. With note about plated candlesticks. Printed and illustrated billhead. Manufacturer and wholesale dealer in Britannia and plated ware, [etc.]. Illustrated with picture of a cruet stand. [note: additional bills from Rufus Dunham, all addressed to John Sise, another Portsmouth merchant, are found in Col. 88 in this repository.]

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For candlesticks. Printed billhead: manufacturers of silver plated ware illustrated with picture of a building, possibly the showroom on Broadway, New York, rather than the factory.

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For key stone pin, Masonic, Odd Fellows, and Templars pins, gold wires, plated buttons, convex and concave glasses, etc. Printed billhead: watches, watch materials, tools, jobbers of jewelry, illustrated with view of store, which was in Transcript Building.

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For sugar, creamer, egg goblets gilt, extinguishers. Printed billhead: manufacturers of silver plated ware illustrated with picture of a building, possibly the showroom on Broadway, New York, rather than the factory.

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For armlets, gents pins, rings, a satchel, gold bars, vest hook, etc. Printed billhead: watches, watch materials, tools, jobbers of jewelry, illustrated with view of store, which was in Transcript Building.

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For pin box. Printed billhead: manufacturers and dealers in swords, sabres, belts, sashes, armor, rifles, pistols, rich embroidery, agents for Pond's Revolvers. Illustrated with picture of eagle on shield, American flags in background, swords in foreground. The company reused an old Palmers & Bachelders billhead. The s in Palmers and the ampersand were crossed out, and & Co. was written in.

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For forks, table and tea spoons, butter knives. Printed billhead: waiters, spoons, forks, ladles, [etc. other goods mentioned]. Illustrated with picture of the prize medal won at the Exhibition of 1853 [location not given, but probably New York City, not Dublin]. Partners were William, Asa H., and Simeon S. Rogers.