Silversmiths

Scope and Contents 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...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of drawings, mostly watercolor, for a wide variety of silver work and jewelry, including designs of reproduction English and colonial pieces, as well as original designs showing the influence of the Arts and Crafts Movement.  Over half of the drawings show tea and coffee services, including creamers, sugar bowls, and waste bowls.  There are, in addition, depictions of pitchers, candlesticks, plaques, frames, urns, and ceremonial cups.  Some of the leaves are...

Scope and Contents This collection documents the overlapping silver and jewelry trade and watchmaking/watch repairing business in the northeastern United States between 1814 and 1901. Bills, drafts, receipts, advertisements, and trade cards from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island are included. These records also include six bound volumes that are the business records of a number of New York craftsmen who were silversmiths-jewelers-watchmakers. The...

Scope and Contents The records in this collection include a day book, correspondence, orders, invoices, bills, and receipts, both from Riggs & Brother to their clients and from suppliers to Riggs & Brother. The day book dates from 1889-1893. In it were recorded purchases, repair work performed, the names and addresses of customers, and charges. Much repair work was done on watches, but jewelry and pieces of silver were also fixed. Purchases included chains, cuff links, rings, silver spoons,...

Scope and Contents Contains business records that illustrate Williamson's thriving business as a Philadelphia silversmith. Includes both ledgers (1800-1811 and 1810-1813) and daybook (1803-1810), and--on microfilm--memorandum book/order book, ledger/cashbook, and loose documents. Sample entries include: "To 6 Doz. Table spoons...202.14;" "To 6 Foot of Gold Chain...12.00;" "To Plain Coffee pot...83.57;" "To 1 Mustard Spoon...1.26;" "To 10 boxes of Sugar;"...

Scope and Contents The Ineson papers were generated in the course of building his silver spoon collection. The bulk of the papers consists of correspondence, including orders, inquiries, requests for appraisals, and more general correspondence. The rest of the collection consists of subject files, clippings, lists of silversmiths, rubbings of touchmarks, photographs of silver, and wax impressions of touchmarks from the backs of silver spoons. Stanley Ineson advertised for old silver spoons in a...