Manuscript Group 1526, Hickok-Matthew Silver Company, Newark, NJ, Collection, 1922 – 1949
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Manuscript Group 1526, Hickok-Matthew Silver Company, Newark, NJ
Collection, 1922-1949, 57 drawings and 169 photographic images
Call Number: MG 1526 (manuscript, OS, and DOS (map case material)).
57 pencil drawings of silver pieces commissioned by such companies as Cartier and Gorham and made by Hickok-Matthews (later Eleder, Hickok and Lebkuecher) silversmiths in Newark, New Jersey from the 1920s-1940s; 169 glass plate negatives with photographic prints of finished silver pieces; a small amount of accompanying financial documents.
Purchase, 2000.
See other silversmith records.
Pencil drawings, some with color details or traced over in ink:
1
– Hickok-Matthew, Newark, NJ
1
– Milton Fuller, Inc.
8
– for Grogan Co., 1922, 1930, 1938, 1940
24
– no labeling, 1930, 1932, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1949
6
– Cartier Inc. (1940, made for Cartier by Gorham), 1942
1
– Loring Andrews, 1941
1
– Spaulding-Gorham, 1939
1
– J.E. Caldwell, Philadelphia, PA
1
– Bailey, Banks & Biddle, Philadelphia, PA
1
– Lambert Bros.
1-
The Georgian House, St. Louis, Missouri
1-
The Cowell & Hubbard Co., Cleveland, OH
Pencil drawings largely painted:
6
– no labeling, 1931
3
– Cartier Inc., 1930
1
– Kolesch & Co., 138 Fulton St., NY
Total:
57 drawings
Contains
drawings of: pitcher, tea strainer, goblet, paper knife, trophy, desk set, coffee pot, sugar & creamer, compotier, vase, salt & pepper set, child’s plate, cigar cutter, serving platter, facial roller, memo pad, smoker’s tray, covered dish, entrée dish, tray, inkwells, flask, child’s set, warming dish, smoker’s set, candy box
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