Henry A. Norton, salesmanager for the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., at Wallingford, Conn., was in Chicago during the past week visiting at the local office and attending sales conferences with the travelers.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 15th December 1926
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Re: Information Regarding R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co.
Ivan Ogilvie, William Barker and Otto Klueber, representatives for the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., traveling out of the Chicago office recently completed traveling through their respective territories and will now remain in Chicago until after the first of the new year.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 15th December 1926
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Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 15th December 1926
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Re: Information Regarding R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co.
The Chicago office of the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., 10 S. Wabash Ave., announced last week, that on Jan. 1, H. Reich will assume charge of this office as Chicago manager. Mr. Reich has been associated with the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. for a great many years. He traveled out of their home office and factory at Wallingford, Conn., calling on the trade in the larger cities of the east, and for the past two years has been in charge of the Philadelphia office. Mr. Reich succeeds Jack L. French, who resigned as manager of the Chicago office. Mr. French had charge for about a year, and is returning to New York, where he has accepted his old position with Duparquet, Huote & Monense, dealers in hotel ware.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 15th December 1926
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Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 15th December 1926
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Re: Information Regarding R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co.
Guarded by special railroad police on its journey nearly half way across the continent, three carloads of silverware from R. Wallace & Sons’ Mfg. Co., Wallingford, Conn., has been shipped to the world’s largest hotel—The Stevens in Chicago. Some idea of the tremendous quantity of silver necessary to furnish a hotel larger than any other hotel throughout the entire world is gained when it is realized that it took more than a ton of metal to fashion the small butter chips alone. If the heavy, silverplated meat dishes could have been placed end on end they would have made a tower 1,500 feet high. There were nearly 2,500 coffee and tea pots and thousands upon thousands of knives, forks and spoons. There were hundreds of tureens, sugar bowls, cream pitchers, serving dishes, urns, banquet pieces and many others too numerous to mention. And each piece made of a character only possible to the most skilled artisans, many of whom have lived in Wallingford for years and who, it is interesting to note, had a part in the making of a complete silver service for the Stevens Hotel Company’s original hotel in Chicago, The LaSalle, which the Wallace plant supplied over 16 years ago.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 2nd March 1927
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Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 2nd March 1927
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Re: Information Regarding R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co.
Wallace Silversmiths - Wallingford, Conn. - 1960
ROSE POINT
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The R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., Wallingford, Conn., announces several additions to the sales force of its Chicago branch. The following men who have joined the company and who will operate from Chicago are Jackson F. Boehm, John Stewart, Ross S. Baxter, H. W. Dodd and A. J. Townsend.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 2nd January 1930
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Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 2nd January 1930
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Re: Information Regarding R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co.
Elliott Bristol New Wallace Representative in New England Territory
The R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., Wallingford, Conn., announces the resignation of A. J. Taylor, who has been its representative covering the New England territory. Mr. Taylor leaves with a record of effective and appreciative service and carries with him the best wishes of the company for continued success.
As Mr. Taylor’s successor the appointment of Elliott Bristol is announced.
He will shortly call on this trade. Mr. Bristol has been a member of the Wallace organization for the past 12 years in the factory and sales department and has been chosen because of his intimate knowledge of the Wallace line, and because he is well equipped to continue the long established policies of the company.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 2nd January 1930
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The R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., Wallingford, Conn., announces the resignation of A. J. Taylor, who has been its representative covering the New England territory. Mr. Taylor leaves with a record of effective and appreciative service and carries with him the best wishes of the company for continued success.
As Mr. Taylor’s successor the appointment of Elliott Bristol is announced.
He will shortly call on this trade. Mr. Bristol has been a member of the Wallace organization for the past 12 years in the factory and sales department and has been chosen because of his intimate knowledge of the Wallace line, and because he is well equipped to continue the long established policies of the company.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 2nd January 1930
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Wallace Introduces "Dawn Star’: Offers Six Piece Setting at $24.95
Wallace Silversmiths is launching a national advertising campaign with local tie-ins to introduce “Dawn Star,” its newest pattern in sterling silver flatware.
The promotion will run through the fall and winter and will include: Modern Bride, Bride’s Magazine, Bride and Home, Living for Young, Homemakers, House Beautiful, Charm, Mademoiselle, Seventeen and Miss Magazine.
Crafted in heavy sterling in delicately modern design, the new Wallace pattern was designed to capture “the new middle class” sterling market. A three-piece place setting, individually packaged, is available at $12.95 F.T.I.—a price which, the company says, will capture many bridal gifts in “the new middle class market.”
The complete six-piece place setting retails at $24.95, tax included, lowest price of any of the Wallace first line sterling silver patterns. And, as a holiday special to highlight the pattern promotion, Wallace will offer a 21-piece starter set of four four-piece place settings plus five serving pieces and a tarnish proof Pacific Cloth drawer liner at $99.95 retail. Regular price: $125. Serving spoons, gravy ladle, meat fork and sugar spoon are included.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - September 1958
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Wallace Silversmiths is launching a national advertising campaign with local tie-ins to introduce “Dawn Star,” its newest pattern in sterling silver flatware.
The promotion will run through the fall and winter and will include: Modern Bride, Bride’s Magazine, Bride and Home, Living for Young, Homemakers, House Beautiful, Charm, Mademoiselle, Seventeen and Miss Magazine.
Crafted in heavy sterling in delicately modern design, the new Wallace pattern was designed to capture “the new middle class” sterling market. A three-piece place setting, individually packaged, is available at $12.95 F.T.I.—a price which, the company says, will capture many bridal gifts in “the new middle class market.”
The complete six-piece place setting retails at $24.95, tax included, lowest price of any of the Wallace first line sterling silver patterns. And, as a holiday special to highlight the pattern promotion, Wallace will offer a 21-piece starter set of four four-piece place settings plus five serving pieces and a tarnish proof Pacific Cloth drawer liner at $99.95 retail. Regular price: $125. Serving spoons, gravy ladle, meat fork and sugar spoon are included.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - September 1958
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Re: Information Regarding R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co.
D. Arnold Wilson has been appointed director of marketing for Wallace Silversmiths (Canada) Ltd. of Toronto. Wilson was formerly vice-president and general manager of Viceroy Manufacturing Co. Ltd. of Toronto.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - February 1961
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Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - February 1961
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Re: Information Regarding R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co.
New director of marketing for Wallace Silversmiths of Canada, Ltd., is D. Arnold Wilson. He will also have charge of sales operations for Hamilton Watch Co., Canada, Ltd., and General Plastics-Rudolph Novelty. His headquarters will be in Toronto.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - February 1961
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Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - February 1961
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PHILADELPHIA
Among the salesmen who visited the trade last week were John Sisson, of R. Wallace & Son Manufacturing Co.
Source: The Jewelers' Review - 12th January 1898
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Among the salesmen who visited the trade last week were John Sisson, of R. Wallace & Son Manufacturing Co.
Source: The Jewelers' Review - 12th January 1898
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F. A. Wallace, Robert Wallace, Henry L. Morris and John Leavenworth, all well known silver ware manufacturers of Wallingford, are on a ten days' fishing trip in Maine.
Source: The Jewelers' Review - 24th July 1901
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Source: The Jewelers' Review - 24th July 1901
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Review of the Christmas Trade of 1894:
R. WALLACE & SONS MFG. CO.
"December was the heaviest month's business ever known in the Chicago office. We have had to work nights this month, something we never did before. It will reach probably $45,000 for December of this year, while December, 1892, ran about $31,000, and for 1893 only about $21,000. We were very heavily stocked this fall, and business began about the 15th of November, and increased rapidly until we were working nights. We ran out of silver novelties early, and could have sold $300 a day more from the 15th of December, if we had had them. Our business will be much larger than in 1893, although we had the World's Fair souvenirs then to help us out; we sold $50,000 worth of them last year. While this year we had to overcome that on sterling goods. Plated goods did not sell well this year. In nickel goods we did comparatively nothing, while last year they sold very well. This year everything was silver. We could have sold 5,000 dozen more Sheffield knives if we had had them. Since the 15th of December two parties offered to take 1,000 dozen each."
Source: The Manufacturing Jeweler - 3rd January 1895
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R. WALLACE & SONS MFG. CO.
"December was the heaviest month's business ever known in the Chicago office. We have had to work nights this month, something we never did before. It will reach probably $45,000 for December of this year, while December, 1892, ran about $31,000, and for 1893 only about $21,000. We were very heavily stocked this fall, and business began about the 15th of November, and increased rapidly until we were working nights. We ran out of silver novelties early, and could have sold $300 a day more from the 15th of December, if we had had them. Our business will be much larger than in 1893, although we had the World's Fair souvenirs then to help us out; we sold $50,000 worth of them last year. While this year we had to overcome that on sterling goods. Plated goods did not sell well this year. In nickel goods we did comparatively nothing, while last year they sold very well. This year everything was silver. We could have sold 5,000 dozen more Sheffield knives if we had had them. Since the 15th of December two parties offered to take 1,000 dozen each."
Source: The Manufacturing Jeweler - 3rd January 1895
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D. H. Raymond, for the past three years in charge of the silverware and watch department at Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co's. , Chicago, has gone on the road for R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., sterling silver ware manufacturers.
Source: The Manufacturing Jeweler - 10th January 1895
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Source: The Manufacturing Jeweler - 10th January 1895
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Re: Information Regarding R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co.
Carl Beresford has been appointed New England sales representative for the wholesale division of Wallace Silversmiths. His territory includes parts of New York state.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - September 1961
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Re: Information Regarding R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co.
Clifford F. Thompson, treasurer of Wallace Silversmiths, Inc., of Wallingford, Conn., and a director and treasurer of Wallace Silversmiths (Canada) Ltd., died October 13, following a short illness. He had been with the firm since 1919. In addition to his work with the Wallace firm, Thompson was a vice-president and a director of the Dime Savings Bank of Wallingford, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Union and New Haven Trust Company. He is survived by his wife; a son and two grandchildren.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - December 1956
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Hamilton moves to buy Wallace Silversmiths
Hamilton Watch Co. is negotiating for the purchase at $22 a share of all of the 300,000 common and 23,600 preferred shares of stock of Wallace Silversmiths.
The offer, mailed to each of some 20 holders of Wallace stock, expires Aug. 30. Price Hamilton will pay, if the purchase is consummated, will be more than $7.1 million.
“Hamilton Watch Co. has been interested for some time in acquiring a silver manufacturing company,” said President Arthur J. Sinkler, “to broaden its marketing program in the jewelry industry. This acquisition would lend itself most favorably to this plan.”
Wallace, based in Wallingford, Conn., makes hollow and flat silverware, fireplace equipment, plastic dishes and stainless steel tableware.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - September 1959
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Hamilton Watch Co. is negotiating for the purchase at $22 a share of all of the 300,000 common and 23,600 preferred shares of stock of Wallace Silversmiths.
The offer, mailed to each of some 20 holders of Wallace stock, expires Aug. 30. Price Hamilton will pay, if the purchase is consummated, will be more than $7.1 million.
“Hamilton Watch Co. has been interested for some time in acquiring a silver manufacturing company,” said President Arthur J. Sinkler, “to broaden its marketing program in the jewelry industry. This acquisition would lend itself most favorably to this plan.”
Wallace, based in Wallingford, Conn., makes hollow and flat silverware, fireplace equipment, plastic dishes and stainless steel tableware.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - September 1959
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William H. Laiblin
Chicago, April 19.—The local jewelry trade has suffered a distinct loss in the death of William H. Laiblin, one of the veteran employes of the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., who passed away last Monday. His passing was sudden and a severe shock to his fellow workers and many friends in the trade.
Mr. Laiblin’s death was the result of an accident at the 103rd St. Station of the Rock Island lines at Beverly Hills. At the time of its occurrence, he was standing on the station platform waiting for a train to pass when the suction caused by the train drew him under the wheels of the last car, resulting in injuries which proved fatal before medical aid could reach him. At a coroner’s inquest, held the following day, a verdict of accidental death was rendered on the testimony of eye witnesses who testified that he made a valiant effort to save himself by pushing against the side of the car with his hands.
William H. Laiblin was born Oct. 15, 1876, at Rowttweil, Germany, and emigrated to the United States in 1891. In the succeeding year he became connected with the Wallace organization and served in various capacities until the time of his death, a period covering 37 years. He was a familiar figure in the establishments of “Loop” jewelers and hotel supply houses.
Deceased is survived by his wife and one son. Interment was at Oakwoods last Wednesday.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 25th April 1929
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Chicago, April 19.—The local jewelry trade has suffered a distinct loss in the death of William H. Laiblin, one of the veteran employes of the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., who passed away last Monday. His passing was sudden and a severe shock to his fellow workers and many friends in the trade.
Mr. Laiblin’s death was the result of an accident at the 103rd St. Station of the Rock Island lines at Beverly Hills. At the time of its occurrence, he was standing on the station platform waiting for a train to pass when the suction caused by the train drew him under the wheels of the last car, resulting in injuries which proved fatal before medical aid could reach him. At a coroner’s inquest, held the following day, a verdict of accidental death was rendered on the testimony of eye witnesses who testified that he made a valiant effort to save himself by pushing against the side of the car with his hands.
William H. Laiblin was born Oct. 15, 1876, at Rowttweil, Germany, and emigrated to the United States in 1891. In the succeeding year he became connected with the Wallace organization and served in various capacities until the time of his death, a period covering 37 years. He was a familiar figure in the establishments of “Loop” jewelers and hotel supply houses.
Deceased is survived by his wife and one son. Interment was at Oakwoods last Wednesday.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 25th April 1929
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Charles E. Hodges
Boston, April 20.—Charles E. Hodges, for many years a salesman for the Reed & Barton Corp., of Taunton and later for the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., died April 16 at Glenside, Pa. He was well known in Boston among the trade.
Deceased leaves besides his widow, three daughters, one son, a sister and seven grandchildren.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 25th April 1929
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Boston, April 20.—Charles E. Hodges, for many years a salesman for the Reed & Barton Corp., of Taunton and later for the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., died April 16 at Glenside, Pa. He was well known in Boston among the trade.
Deceased leaves besides his widow, three daughters, one son, a sister and seven grandchildren.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 25th April 1929
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Henry Norton Elected Secretary of R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co.., Wallingford, Conn.
The R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., Wallingford, Conn., announced last week the election of Henry Norton to the office of secretary of the company. Mr. Norton has been connected with the Wallace organization for the past 41 years, going through the various chairs of executive positions during that period.
At the time of his election to the position of secretary he was assistant to the vice-president. Before that, Mr. Norton held the position of sales manager of the company.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 16th January 1930
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The R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., Wallingford, Conn., announced last week the election of Henry Norton to the office of secretary of the company. Mr. Norton has been connected with the Wallace organization for the past 41 years, going through the various chairs of executive positions during that period.
At the time of his election to the position of secretary he was assistant to the vice-president. Before that, Mr. Norton held the position of sales manager of the company.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 16th January 1930
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