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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.
Jewellery and silverware company: Date of birth: 18 September 1837: Location of birth: Category: ... Collection: Birmingham Museum of ... Tiffany & Co. Metadata. This ...
By the turn of the century, Morgan had become one of America's most important collectors of gems and had assembled the most important gem collection in the U.S. as well as of American gemstones (over 1,000 pieces). Tiffany & Co. assembled his first collection under their chief gemologist, George Frederick Kunz. The collection was exhibited at ...
When the dazzling 16-foot-high leaded stained- glass window arrived in Canton in 1913, it made front-page news—and postponed the new church’s dedication by a week because of a shipping delay.
His son, Edward Chandler Moore, was in charge of designing and manufacturing silverware at Tiffany. Moore worked from circa 1827 to 1831 as a silversmith in New York City, partnered from 1832 to 1836 with Garrett Eoff as Eoff & Moore, again worked solo from 1837 to 1847, then partnered with his son, Edward Chandler Moore, from circa 1848 to ...
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