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NOT STERLING?

New York

New York's grand jury has found indictments against Tiffany & Company, the Whiting Manufacturing Company, and the Gorham Manufacturing Company, as corporations, and Robert C. Black, Aaron V. Frost, Theodore B. Starr, George B. Shiebler, and F. M. Whiting, as individuals, for a violation of the Penal Code by selling silverware marked "sterling," which is below the 925-1000ths fine. The witnesses named in these indictments are Oscar Siesel, a buyer of Bloomingdale Brothers, and an employe in the United States Assay Office in Wall street. Siesel purchased a lot of small articles from the silversmiths named in the indictments, and had them assayed. The test, it is claimed, showed that they were below the standard fineness in every instance. This action is the result of the indictment of the proprietors of several department-stores, last year, on the charge of selling what is commonly denominated "fake" silverware. None of these indicments have been moved, so far, and the department store men determined to square up accounts for what they considered little short of persecution.

The accused silversmiths were haled before the courts on the 25th of March, and through their counsel entered a plea of "not guilty," which was afterward withdrawn and substituted by a demurrer to the indictments when the case comes up in April. Should these cases be pressed to trial, and the defendants convicted, they will be liable to a fine not exceeding $500 for each offense.

According to the statement of the counsel for the accused, the department-store proprietors had been seeking an opportunity for months to get an opportunity of playing a Roland for an Oliver, but were unable to do so until one of their number, Isaac Stern, of Stern Brothers, had been drawn to serve on the March grand jury. That Mr. Stern was in any way connected with the finding of these indictments, was positively denied by Assistant District Attorney Battle, who declared that that gentleman had absented himself when the subject of finding bills against the silversmiths was under consideration. According to this lawyer's statement, the proof against the silversmiths was so conclusive that the grand jury had no alternative than to find true bills against all concerned. This had not been the case three months ago when a similar attempt was made, the assay tests presented at that time being insufficient to warrant indictments. In fact, those tests showed that the articles of silverware which had been examined, were only slightly below the required standard.

Representatives of the accused firms treat the matter with great unconcern, and express confidence in being cleared of what they denominate "nonsensical trumped up charges." One of these gentlemen went so far as to charge that the department-store people had not tested the goods themselves, but had subjected an alloyed solder to the assay, and even then they had been unable to show in any case where the material was as low as the articles the selling of which led to the indictment of what this individual contemptuously classed as the " dry-goods men."

One of the assayers, in the employ of the Government, is authority for the statement that he had evidence against eighteen department-stores in New York City, in which articles sold as "sterling silver" did not contain 500-1000ths of that metal. And so the war goes on. It is quite interesting to an outsider, as it has resulted in many startling developments. Where it will end will be a most difficult matter to imagine, as one side is just as determined as the other, and is not likely to sue for peace under any consideration. New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts have laws on their statute books that prohibit the sale of these bogus goods, but it is only of late that any decided steps have been taken to carry out their provisions.


Source: Home Furnishing Review - April 1896

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THE INTERNATIONAL SILVER COMPANY

Meriden, Connecticut


The International Silver Company, Meriden, Conn., have just issued a souvenir engraving 15¾ x 13½, suitable for framing, entitled “A Remarkable New England Jewelry Store.” It was owned in 1851 by Jones, Ball & Poor, Summer and Washington streets, Boston, and is said to have been unsurpassed at that time in beauty and general arrangement. The Flatware made by Rogers Bros., established in 1847, was largely sold together with the Silver Plated Hollow Ware made by the Meriden Britannia Company, now a principal constituent company of the International Silver Company.

Source: The Iron Age - 25th February 1904

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GOODNOW & JENKS - GOODNOW & Co. - WILLIAM B. DURGIN Co.

Boston, Massachusetts


The William B. Durgin Company of Concord, N.H., have bought outright the business of Goodnow & Company, formerly Goodnow & Jenks, manufacturers of high grade hollow ware. The sterling silver wares of the Durgin Company are well known to the trade.

Source: The Metal Industry - November 1906

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LAWRENCE Mfg.Co.

Newark, New Jersey


The Lawrence Mfg. Co., recently organized for the manufacture of silver novelties, are now in successful operation at 93 Lafayette St., Newark, N. J.

Source: The Brass World and Platers' Guide - July 1906

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CHARLES PARK

Eastwood Park Co.


Charles Park, formerly with the Eastwood Park Co. of Newark, N. J., is to start a factory in that city for the manufacture of sterling-silver and German-silver novelties and toilet goods. The factory will be located in the Crane building.

Source: The Brass World and Platers' Guide - May 1911

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MANCHESTER SILVER Co.

Providence, Rhode Island


The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Manchester Silver Co., 49 Pavilion Ave., will be held today (Wednesday. Jan. 19), at which time there will be a complete reorganization of the business. William C. Fisher and Edwin T. Crins, who have been president and treasurer, respectively, of the concern, are no longer associated with the business, new parties having obtained the control. During the past week William C. Fisher, Jr., and Robert C. Fisher, sons of the former president, levied attachments on the buildings and other property of the Manchester Silver Co.. on Pavilion Ave., each for a claim of $2,000. The consideration of these claims will be among the business to be transacted at the annual business next Wednesday.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 19th January 1921

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JOSEPH JOSHUA HOGAN

Rogers & Hamilton


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Joseph Joshua Hogan recently known as an expert on steel, died at Greenwich, Conn. He was 84 years old. Mr. Hogan's ancestors came from Ireland in 1732 and settled in Canada. His mother was a sister of Commodore Worden, of Boston, and in his youth Mr. Hogan went to that city. Later he was a partner in the firm of Hogan, Clarke & Sleeper. In 1873 he became associated with a cousin, Charles Hamilton, in the firm of Rogers & Hamilton, silverware merchants. Fifteen years ago he retired. Since the early eighties he had lived most of the time in New York. He is survived by two sons, George B. C. Hogan and Addison C. Hogan.

Source: The Iron Age - 20th November 1919

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SILVER METAL COMPANY

State Hospital Commission - January Conference 1897


Dr. Blumer, from the committee on table cutlery, presented the following report:

"A sample fork was submitted to the Gorham Manufacturing Company, for qualitative analysis, whereupon the following report was received under date of January 25, 1897:

'We have made a qualitative analysis of the fork that you sent us on the 15th and have to report that it is simply a high grade of German silver, which, as you know, is composed of copper, zinc and nickel. The percentage of nickel regulates the hardness and the whiteness of the metal. This seems to be a little higher than the German silver usually employed as a base metal on which to electroplate, and we think it one of the German silver forks on the market for use without plating made of 21 per cent, nickel.'

Your committee does not recommend the goods of the Silver Metal Company for use in the State hospital service."

Dr. Pilgrim in explaining why he had not acted with the committee, stated that he had not had sufficient time to test the metal to his own satisfaction, and that although it was not entirely satisfactory, he admitted that it was more satisfactory than the gold aluminum.

The chairman stated that he had used it in his own kitchen, and that although silverware was preferable, the silver metal ware held its color and wore remarkably well, and there was no odor. He also stated that he had urged the use of gold aluminum, but that he was compelled to admit that it had not given satisfaction, and that it had a very pronounced odor, unless it was kept scrupulously clean. He thought it desirable that if a metal could be found that would give satisfactory results that would not require plating, would keep clean and be without odor, its use was worth experimenting.

Dr. Howard stated that there was cutlery on the market known synonymously as German silver, nickel silver, silver metal, etc., and that the high grade nickel silver was quite generally in use, whereas the low grade was used for plating purposes.

Dr. Wagner also stated that the yellow ware in use had proven so unsatisfactory in their experience that some other ware should be adopted. He had used the sample sent him for six weeks on his own table and it had worn so well that he would like an opportunity of further testing it.

After a further prolonged discussion of this question, and hearing the representative of the Silver Metal Company, it was determined to make a further practical test of the silver metal and nickel silver cutlery, and empowered the committee to request the assay department of the United States to make an analysis of the metal, submitting at the same time a piece of German silver, for a report as to their comparative value, which was carried.

The chairman reported that the board for the purpose of establishing prices for prison made goods had met and agreed that the auditor of the Commission should make the prices and report to the board for final adoption. It was suggested that when the hospitals ordered goods that they describe the quality as near as they can, and that he would make a report and fix the price, subject, of course, to the approval of this board, and then an estimate could be made upon this basis. They would not be allowed to charge a higher price than the same goods could be bought for in the open market.


Source: Ninth Annual Report, State Commission in Lunacy - State Hospital Commission - 1898

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JAMES E. BLAKE COMPANY

Attleboro, Massachusetts


The biggest business event in Attleboro’s month concerned the retirement of James E. Blake and the sale of his share of the James E. Blake Company, silversmiths, together with the Post office block, Eden factory, Electric Chain factory, his South Main street residence and many thousand feet of land in the heart of Attleboro’s business center. Guesses rate the transaction from $600,000 up. Mr. Blake suffered a slight shock a year ago and intends to travel to Europe, Panama and South America for his health's sake. Eventually he may locate in California. The silver concern was purchased by Horace Remington & Sons of Providence. While it is not the present plan, it is expected that the Remington refinery and one or two other firms in which the company is interested will remove to Attleboro. A new factory, four stories and of brick, is to be built on Wall street. The W. E. Hayward company is to double its floor space by building a new addition. E. A. Slade & Co. is planning to double its floor space. The demand for bracelets for watches is so great that it indicates that this fad will rule the holidays. Several firms in town are rushed trying to keep up with orders. Reports of the year for silversmiths indicate that 1912 has been a record-breaker.

Source: The Metal Industry - December 1912

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ROCKFORD SILVER PLATE Co.

Rockford, Illinois


The Rockford Silver Plate Co., Rockford, Ill., is just now passing through a period of exceptional business activity that promises the largest trade that this corporation has experienced since its initiation. There seems to be growing a feeling among Western business men that institutions particularly adapted, or, as it were, natural to the locality should have precedence and a claim upon the citizens over an outsider. No doubt to this feeling can be ascribed the wonderful business the Rockford Silver Plate Co. is doing. Under the able guidance and executive ability of the old veteran general manager, Geo. Kelley, this concern is occupying a high plane in the silver plate industry. The citizens of Rockford, one of the most thriving and pushing of Illinois manufacturing cities, are justly proud of their silver plate plant.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 7th October 1891

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JEANETTE JEWELRY COMPANY, Inc.

Providence, Rhode Island


The Jeanette Jewelry Company, Inc., with a capital stock of $50,000, was incorporated recently under the laws of Rhode Island, the incorporators being Robert C. Nickerson, Oswald H. Schmadi and Ralph C. Nickerson. The concern, which will be located in this city, is authorized to buy, sell and manufacture jewelry and silverware.

Source: The Metal Industry - October 1915

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ROGERS & BROTHER

Waterbury, Connecticut


Captain D. B. Hamilton, president of Rogers & Bro., Waterbury, and party were passengers on the 'Normannia' which returned to New York, disabled, having been almost overwhelmed by a tidal wave.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 31st January 1894

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USS RHODE ISLAND

A magnificent silver service, the gift of the people of Rhode Island to the battleship bearing the name of that state, has just been completed at a cost of $8,500, and is said to be one of the most beautiful ever manufactured. Every piece was fashioned by hand, and the finished product still bears the marks of the artisan's hammer. The seal of the state and the rhododendron, the state flower, are among the suggestive symbols used in the design of the larger pieces, while each bears the seal. The largest single piece is the great punch bowl, which will hold five gallons. On it in bold relief are worked portraits of four of the state's great naval officers, and pictures of the burning of the Gaspee and landing of Roger Williams. It is 15½ inches in height and two feet in diameter. In a prominent place is the inscription: "Gift of the people of the State, 1907." On the various pieces Indian corn, grapes, Rhode Island greening apples, the turkey head, rhododendrons, etc., are prominent. On the coffee tray is a representation of the old mill at Newport. The entire set is a work of art.


Source: Fabrics, Fancy Goods & Notions - April 1907

The service was manufactured by the Gorham Company.

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A LUCKY ESCAPE

Philadelphia


A heavy steel safe, which was being hoisted to the office of A. Mednik. a diamond setter in the Matz building, 735 Sansom St., Friday afternoon, crashed to the ground when the rope which held it broke. Herman Waxman, of 311 Buttonwood St., an errand boy employed by Mr. Mednick, had a narrow escape from death as he walked under the suspended safe a few seconds before it crashed to the ground. Mr. Mednik who recently took an office in the Matz Building purchased the safe from a local safe and lock dealer. He paid S75 on account and arranged to pay the balance when the safe was delivered. The dealer employed a firm of safe movers to put the safe in the diamond setters office, which is on the second floor of the building. When the safe movers arrived at the Matz Building they conferred with Mr. Mednik and explained that they would leave the safe on the pavement and return the next day and place it in the office. Mr. Mednik then got in touch with the concern which sold him the safe and explained the situation, and another safe mover was sent to hoist the safe. They placed a heavy rope around the safe and raised it to the second floor. As the safe hung in the air and the workmen were preparing to pull it in the window the rope broke and it fell to the pavement with a loud report. The noise brought many jewelers and opticians from their offices on Sanson St. The crowd which gathered discovered that the safe had been broken, but the cement pavement was hardly damaged. The safe dealers have promised to give Mr. Mednik another safe to replace the one which was damaged by the fall to the pavement.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 22nd February 1922

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GEORGE W. SHIEBLER

Brooklyn


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George W. Shiebler died at his home in Brooklyn, in September, 1920. He was the son of Andrew and Mary Shiebler, born 74 years ago in the city of Baltimore. His father was a manufacturer of coach and military braid—one of the last in the business to abandon the hand-made article for the machine-made.

The family moved to Washington, D. C, where George went to school, and upon being graduated, he entered the employ of the Western Union Telegraph Company as a messenger boy. He served as a carrier of despatches during the Civil War, and received many tributes for bravery from the War Department. He once carried an important message to Gen. Warren on the field of battle, and in order to show his appreciation, the General autographed the despatch, and gave it to young Shiebler as a keepsake. This telegram was presented to the Warren Post of the G. A. R. at the dedication of the Warren statue in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.

Upon the death of his father the family moved to Philadelphia, and Mr. Shiebler was transferred to the Western Union offices there, under the supervision of Theodore N. Vail. In 1876, however, he gave up his position with the telegraph company, and went into business for himself as a maker of gold chains. The firm was known as George W. Shiebler & Company. The concern moved to New York and founded a store at 8 Liberty Place. Shortly after this, the name of the firm was changed to The George W. Shiebler Company, which was a part of the Silversmiths' Company — a proposed combination of the Gorham Company, Reed & Barton, Whiting, Dominick & Haff, and the George W. Shiebler Company. The George W. Shiebler Company's part in this combination was to do the breaking down and heavy rolling.

The Silversmiths' Company was never completely organized for some reason or another and the corporation of the George W. Shiebler Company was dissolved. The "and" was again admitted to the firm name, and William F. Shiebler came into partnership with George W. Shiebler. Stores were opened on Maiden Lane and lower Broadway. William F. Shiebler resigned shortly after this, and George W.'s son, Arthur M. Shiebler, came in as partner to his father. The two remained together until the business wound up eleven years ago.

Starting in the small shop at 8 Liberty Place, George W. Shiebler soon moved his business over to the factory of Ketcham & McDougal in Brooklyn. Here he stayed until his own magnificent factory at Underhill and St. Marks avenue, Brooklyn, was completed.

George W. Shiebler was the originator of the curio medalion and "Homeric" style of jewelry. In the manufacture of the latter style a special solution, now known to only one man on earth, Arthur M. Shiebler, must be used. Jewelers all over the country tried to find the ingredients of the solution, but always failed.

Some of the handsomest enameling work ever done in the United States came from the factory of George W. Shiebler— two special artists being employed for this work alone. Five designers and nine die sinkers created exclusive designs, and dies which made George W. Shiebler famous in every silver and jewelry house from coast to coast. One of the greatest regrets in the last years of Mr. Shiebler's life was the fact that when he failed in business the buyers of his factory only took it under the stipulation that every spoon and fork die located therein was to be at once destroyed. The only reason ever designed for this was that the work was so massive that the metal used in each piece made the spoons and forks commercially unprofitable to handle. The destruction of these dies caused great sorrow among all true lovers of sterling silver table appointments.

His love for the beautiful forbade George W. Shiebler's making spoons of the thin light weight, so much in demand by the manufacturers today, who aim only to sell at great profit.

Many famous pieces were made under the personal supervision of George W. Shiebler, among these being the golf trophy awarded to Sir James Cox of England; a replica in sterling silver of the Santa Maria, Columbus' ship, for A. Stowell, of Boston, and the Col. Martin marksman trophy for the 71st Regiment, Inf., X. G. N. Y. This last article cost $3,000 to produce. It bore the equestrian figures of Generals Grant, Sherman and Sheridan—the former two reliefs being exact copies of a monument erected of Grant, and the St. Gaudens statue of Sherman at the 59th street entrance to Central Park.

Elegant pastoral staffs' for the bishops of Ohio and Tokio, the former displayed by Congdon & Company, were produced under the personal direction of George W. Shiebler.

George W. Shiebler always took pride in the fact that his company rolled and melted its own silver to the last. His metal was at all times assayed higher than sterling, and his products evidenced individuality more than anything else.

Besides building up the great silverware manufacturing house that you have just read of, George W. Shiebler collected the signatures of all the earth's celebrities and dignitaries, and when he died, owned the most famous autograph album in the world. It was valued at $100,000 and is now in the possession of his grandson, Howard Shiebler. In the book are the names of every President and his wife since Grant; foreign statesmen, such as Wu Ting Fang, the Prince of Siam, Queen Victoria, Edward VII, etc. Sarah Bernhardt joked with Henry Ward Beecher on the last page of the album, and Mme. Emma Calve passed a jest at the Divine Sarah. All of the famous musicians wrote little bars of music in the book; the authors contributed verses or bits of prose, and the artists made little sketches.

George W. Shiebler's travels at home and abroad made him a most interesting man, and an eminent newspaper man once said that in all his career of interviewing "big'' people, it was his greatest pleasure, privilege and honor, to have met and known that tenderest, most loving', and most courteous of men, George W. Shiebler. He was the only gentleman, in the strictest sense of the word, that the writer ever knew, or heard of, because in all his life he never caused another person a single moment of physical or mental.


Source: The Metal Industry - October 1920

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ALEXANDER DOMINICK

New York


The New York Society, "Sons of the Revolution," has lost one of its worthy members, by the death of Mr. Alexander Dominick, who died June 9 last, in the fortieth year of his age. He was the junior member of the firm of Dominick & Haff, Silversmiths, at 820 Broadway, New York. The deceased was a decendant of George Dominique, a French Huguenot, who came to this country in 1740, and was the Vestryman of Trinity Church, after whom was named Dominick Street in New York. His grandfather was James William Dominick, a member of the Executive Committee of the American Bible Society, and one of the founders of the Eastern Dispensary. He was also a trustee of the American Tract Society. His great grandfather, Captain George Dominick, served with the New York Militia in 1775. Mr. Alexander Dominick was a member of the Union League, the Players and Seventh Regiment Veterans' Clubs and of the Huguenot Society. We tender our sincere sympathy to his wife and daughter, and other relatives. His worthy mother, Mrs. Mary Day Dominick, wife of the late James W. Dominick, also died, December 18 last, age 73

Source: New Amsterdam Gazette - January 1895

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BANQUET IN HONOUR OF SIR ROBERT PEEL

London


Banquet At Goldsmiths' Hall.—The Goldsmiths' Company gave a grand complimentary entertainment to Sir R. Peel and a distinguished assemblage of conservative statesmen and nobility. Covers were laid for 109, among whom was his royal highness the Duke of Cambridge.

In returning thanks for the proposal of his health Sir Robert Peel said, he should have been deeply sensible of the honour which had been paid to him in any other society composed of an equal number of English gentlemen. But he confessed it was peculiarly acceptable when paid to him under the auspices and within the walls of so noble an establishment;—the establishment of a company venerable for its antiquity, but with still higher claims upon our respect, from the noble use it had made of its wealth, in the encouragement of education founded upon religious principles. Every one who was acquainted with the history of this company, must be aware of the example it had set with respect to the instruction of all those with whom it had any connexion by property or any other tie. It had other claims, he would always maintain, on the public respect, from the application of its wealth to the encouragement of the genius of native artists, and the improvement of the taste of the country, as evinced by the splendid specimen of architecture it had presented to an admiring country. It must be a matter of proud reflection to that company, that it was enabled to associate within their walls the most eminent representatives of almost every profession, in every department of art and science of which this country could boast.

On the Bishop of London's health being proposed, his lordship in returning thanks, bore his willing and thankful testimony to the Christian liberality of the Goldsmiths' Company. He spoke not of their exertions in other departments of charity; but he spoke with feelings of deep gratitude of the assistance which they had given him in promoting a most important plan he had laid before the public, for supplying the spiritual destitution which existed in many parts of this great city and the suburbs. To the great companies of the city of London, but pre-eminently to the Goldsmiths' Company, he held himself peculiarly indebted, not only for providing sites, but also contributing liberally from their resources for the promotion of the great object he had in view. That was sufficient to sanctify, and render legitimate, and appropriate, a display of splendid hospitality , which, under other circumstances, unless sanctified by the fruits of charity, so far from deserving commendation, would rather become the subject of reproof.

Various other healths were drank, and the company retired shortly after midnight.

The band of the Coldstream Guards were in attendance, and everything, under the able superintendence of Mr. P. Hardwick, went off with the most perfect satisfaction.


Source: Annual Register - July 1839

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R.F. SIMMONS & Co.

Attleboro, Massachusetts


The R. F. Simmons company declared their annual dividend this week. The letter to the employees announcing the dividend stated that business conditions were bad throughout the year, and that a surplus in other years made it possible to declare a dividend of 3 per cent. The letter had a hopeful tone, and predicted that relief from the present conditions was in sight for the near future.

Source: The Metal Industry - February 1915

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SAWYER SILVER SPOON Co.

Hartford, Connecticut


Captain Joseph Hall Barnum, proprietor of the 'Hartford Sunday Journal', and at one time an employe of the Sawyer Silver Spoon Co., Hartford, died recently, at the Hartford Hospital. The deceased was a first cousin of P. T. Barnum.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 27th August 1902

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LARGE SILVER BULLION SHIPMENTS TO INDIA

New York


Early in November, a single shipment of silver bullion from the New York assay office to Calcutta was made with a value of $3,000,000, this being the largest ever sent out from the New York office. Twenty-five large motor trucks were required to transport it to the docks. The bullion was obtained by the melting down of the silver dollars held in reserve against the one-dollar silver certificates, which are being, retired by the issuing of Federal reserve notes. The silver thus set free is being shipped to India under an agreement with the British Government, which is obliged to pay the natives in India, in whatever capacity they are employed, in bullion.

It was learned that about $17,000,000 in bullion had been shipped to the Far East from the local Assay Office since the right to melt down the silver dollars was conferred by the act of Congress of April 23. Shipments are being made from San Francisco and Philadelphia, and it is estimated that the total amount thus far sent to India is between $600,000,000 and $70,000,000.


Source: Metal Record and Electroplater - November 1918

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