Amongst the various novelties that have been brought out in aluminum perhaps none has had a more pleasing effect than the new damask patterns, which so eminently agree with the surface lustre and hue of this little-understood metal. There are now to be found some of the most pleasing ash-trays and such like things for a few shillings apiece that have ever been produced, and are selling well.
Source: The Watchmaker, Jeweller and Silversmith - 1st April 1892
The Aluminum & White Metal Manufacturing Company, of 366 Broadway, New York City, report that after many years of experimenting they have succeeded in plating aluminum with either gold or silver and are ready to put plated aluminum novelties on the market. They are also doing plating in all metals for the jewelry trade.
The Aluminum Novelty Co. was incorporated at Albany last week to manufacture aluminum combs, hair ornaments, novelties, etc., with a capital of $1,000. The incorporators are P. Bernstein, Ada Bernstein and Ralph Polcini, all of this city.
A. B. Dwigans, of Shellsburg, Iowa, will soon put on the market a calendar made of aluminum. It is a perpetual calendar, is the size of a silver dollar, and consists of two stamped plates fastened in the center by a rivet.
Fred Kaufman, 41 Maiden Lane, New York, has just placed on the market a patented novelty which he calls the Rose Boutonniere, a little celluloid rosebud which is made so true to nature that when in the buttonhole it requires close inspection to distinguish it from a real bud. Its perfect finish. as well as the low price at which it is sold to the trade, has produced for it a very large sale.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 18th January 1893
The National Blank Company, dealers in aluminum novelties, at No. 14 East Seventeenth street, last week assigned to James L. Millard. The company had been in business two months.
D. R. Child Novelty Co. are making a success of aluminum jewelry such as hair pins, side combs, belt buckles, etc., besides numerous toilet articles more or less useful. Since the printing of a catalogue of their goods embracing a hundred or more designs, many new articles have been originated. Aluminum seems to have come to stay. Its utility seems to be unlimited.
Source: The Manufacturing Jeweler - 20th June 1895
Fargo & Engley are at present the sole representatives of the aluminium business in the Attleboros. Said Mr. Engley: “We are busy now with an avalanche of orders on advertising novelties for western retail houses of all kinds, but we see a growing movement on the part of the jewelers and jewelry jobbers to recognize our goods as kindred to theirs. At present there is little relation between our trade and the jewelry business and we are giving our attention to advertising, but in the future the two trades will work much nearer together. We are confident of a big year in 1900, for we have now six travelers out with our samples and we are fitting up our new plant to handle what they are sending us.”
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 10th January 1900