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ADIE BROTHERS OF BIRMINGHAM AT THE PACIFIC NATIONAL EXHIBITION
GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY for TCA Stewardess Fran Russell to examine a part of a $110,000 gold tea service was afforded when the shipment arrived at Vancouver Air Port recently. The beautiful service wrought by Adie Bros., of Birmingham was flown to Vancouver for exhibit at Pacific National Exhibition. C. N. Woodward, a sponsor of the shipment does the honours as armed guards Reg Keen and Victor Yasheresse look on. The tea set will tour the U.S. following the P.N.E. and will be sold to the highest bidder.
Sir Frank Roberts, the British Ambassador in Moscow, presented a set of ‘golden goblets’ to Mr. Khruschev after completion of the tour of the fair. The goblets, in fact, are champagne cups—a dozen of them in a leather red-and-gold presentation case with a plaque in silver engraved as follows: ‘Presented to Mr. N. S. Khruschev, Chairman of the Council of Ministry of the U.S.S.R.. by Industrial and Trade Fairs Ltd. on the occasion of the British Trade Fair held in Moscow May 19 to June 4, 1961.’
The cups, 4-5 inch high, made in hall-marked silver and clad in pure gold, were presented in the presence of Lord Drogheda and Mr. V. G. Sherren, director-general of the Fair.
Adie Bros. Ltd., of Soho Hill, Birmingham, 19, made these champagne cups. Known throughout the world as ‘Adie of England, Goldsmiths and Silversmiths,’ the company has made many exceptional pieces for members of the British Royal Household—for example, a silver-and-ivory christening bowl for the Queen, a silver tea service presented to the Queen on the occasion of her wedding,
Sir Reginald Rootes gave Mr. Khruschev a model Hillman Minx on the Rootes Group stand.
Mr. Khruschev thanked Mr. Maudling, Lord Drogheda and Sir Frank Roberts, the British Ambassador, for showing him round. He said it was ‘a wonderful show’ and he wished it ‘all success’.
Great were the rejoicings on the return home of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Adie, who, with Miss Gaunt came so near to losing their lives in the ill-fated "Empress of Ireland." The experience both Mr. Adie and his wife passed through will not be readily forgotten.
Source: The Jeweller and Metalworker - 1st July 1914
