Postby kerangoumar » Mon Apr 07, 2008 5:11 pm
let me add to that: there were two columbia silver companies - one made silverplate in the early part of the 20th c, the other sterling and it was located in Brooklyn in the late 1950s and early 1960s. "The Brooklyn firm, from the 1950s, might have left records--but in 90% of the cases businesses simply destroy their records when they close up." - the quote is from another silver site. as they correctly state, it is only recently that we have become obsessed with finding every least shred of information about everyone and everything. (i might add that that is something i resist, on a personal level, hypocritical and contradictory as it might be)