Tiffany & Co. Advertisements and Information

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News reached this country last Saturday from Berlin, Germany, that the name of George Frederick Kunz, of Tiffany & Co., and widely known as a mineralogist, had been stricken from the rolls of Marburg University, which institution in 1903 issued to him a degree of Ph. D. This action was taken by the faculty, it is reported, because of Mr. Kunz's "attacks and insults against the German people, after the armistice, in the annual report of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society." Despite the action of the German university Dr. Kunz will still enjoy the title of doctor, because of the fact that in 1907 Knox College bestowed upon him a degree of Doctor of Science. This degree was given to Dr. Kunz for his scientific work. Dr. Kunz holds offices in many associations throughout the country and is also a member of numerous scientific organizations. He has received decorations from several foreign countries, among them being, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor; Officer d'Instruction Publique de France; Knight of St. Olaf of Norway; Officer of the Order of the Rising Sun of Japan, Fourth Class. He also enjoys the rare distinction of being an honorary correspondent of the Museum Historic Naturalle of Paris, France.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 14th April 1920

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Dr. George F. Kunz, of Tiffany & Co., was last week elected president of the American Scenic and Historic Society.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 6th February 1907

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Alfred Britton, known to the police as “Toothpicks,” who was arrested Friday charged with the theft of four silver plates valued at $200, from Tiffany & Co., has been held in $1,500 bail for examination. On the night of his arrest “Toothpicks" confessed to the police that he had been stealing from Tiffany & Co. for two years, and had stolen $5,000 worth of articles in that time. Inspector Brooks says Britton is one of the cleverest shoplifters in the country, and that his photograph is in the Rogues Gallery. In connection with his last theft, Louis Elsberg, said to be the proprietor of a jewelry store at 365 Bowery, was arrested Saturday charged with having received stolen property, but when examined in the Essex Market Police Court Saturday. Elsberg exonerated himself so far that Superintendent Hyde, of Tiffany & Co., said he did not wish to make a complaint against him. Elsberg was discharged Monday by Magistrate Flammer after it was shown that he had paid “Toothpicks" the full value of the articles. In court Elsberg waived all claim to the plates, and they were turned over to Tiffany & Co. Britton, when examined, denied absolutely that he had made any confession to Inspector Brooks or that he had said he had been plundering Tiffany & Co. for two years.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 11th March 1903

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A theft was committed in the store of Tiffany & Co., 15 Union Square, at 2.30 o’clock Monday afternoon, and before 3 o'clock the man charged with the crime had been haled before Magistrate Cornell, examined and held in $1,000 for trial. The prisoner was Joseph Brandus, 55 years old. He refused to give his address or tell anything about himself, but a policeman of the court squad said that he had been arrested twice before upon the complaint of his wife. The complainant was Ralph M. Hyde, superintendent at Tiffany’s, and his witness was Herbert E. Ward, a salesman. According to Ward’s testimony, Brandus took a $50 silver and onyx clock from a showcase, put it in a long black bag and walked toward the elevator. The theft was committed on the second floor. Ward followed him and as he was about to step on the elevator platform, accused him of the theft. Brandus denied the charge, and, at the same time, jumped aboard the elevator car and tried to close the slide door after him. The man in charge of the elevator put on the brake so that the car could not move, and, after a very short struggle, ejected Brandus, who immediately offered to give up the clock. Ward refused to take it and held the man until a policeman arrested him.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 14th September 1898

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Wm. Lipgens, a deaf mute metal worker, has just completed a curious medallion of President Roosevelt. The piece was made from a silver dollar, and is adorned with the figure of the President on horseback in the Rough Rider uniform. This figure was hammered out on the face of the dollar, and there was no welding or introduction of any metal other than that contained in the coin itself. The design was reproduced from a photograph of the President taken at Montauk Point when he returned from Cuba, and represents an unusually fine degree of skillful workmanship. Mr. Lipgens is one of the designers and chasers for Tiffany & Co. of this city.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 18th February 1903

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There has been on exhibition during the past week at the Fifth Ave. store of Tiffany & Co. a challenge cup presented by W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., to the American Automobile Association, to be raced for yearly by cars under 1,000 kilos. The cup, which is a large one, is gold lined, and has about the top a laurel wreath in relief work.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 23rd December 1908

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Tiffany & Co.’s Pan-American Exhibit to Be in Charge of George F. Kunz

George F. Kunz, of Tiffany & Co., is to take charge of the interests of that house at the Pan-American Exposition and will probably remain at Buffalo until the close of the exposition. This is the 25th anniversary of his exposition work, which began by representing the American Museum of Natural History for some 10 weeks at the Centennial Exposition, in Philadelphia, in 1876. He was identified with the Tiffany exhibit, and as special agent in charge of the Mining and Mineralogical exhibit at the Paris Exposition, and was decorated as an Officer of the Academy and awarded a gold medal and a silver medal as collaborator, all in 1889. He was an honorary special agent to the Kimberley International Exposition in 1891, was a representative of Tiffany & Co. at the World’s Columbian Exposition, in Chicago, in 1893, and was the only honorary special agent in mining. He received eight medals, including the highest award, a gold medal, for his literature, rocks, portraits and folk lore, and a special hall was devoted to his library on gems, mineralogy and mining. In 1894 he was honorary chief of mines at the Cotton States International Exposition, in Atlanta, Ga. In 1897 he was a member of the exposition jury, chairman of the industrial art division and treasurer of the New York State commission to the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, at Nashville. In 1898 he was honorary chief of mines to the Trans-Mississippi Exposition at Omaha, Neb., and was awarded a gold medal. In 1900 he was in charge of the Tiffany exhibit at the Paris Exposition and was a Governmental and special delegate to a number of international congresses. He was awarded a gold medal for his writings on gems, a bronze medal for his folk lore and a medal as collaborator. Mr. Kunz has recently been decorated by the French Government as an “Officier Instruction Publique” with the purple button, the second highest grade of the purple decorations, the first being the purple ribbon of an “Officier de la Academic’’ which Mr. Kunz received in 1889.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 8th May 1901

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William H. Cotton, formerly cashier for Tiffany & Co, and one of the best known men in the jewelry trade at the time of his retirement, 11 years ago, died, Sunday, at his home, 196 Greene Ave., Brooklyn. Mr. Cotton was born at Bradford, Vt., in 1818. His father, John Cotton, was one of the electors of James Monroe, and carried the results of the Vermont election to Washington on horseback. When 17 years old William H. Cotton came to New York, and for many years was connected with the firm of Hyde & Everett, leather merchants in the “Swamp.” He was one of the founders of the Republican organization in this city and vicinity. Later he joined the Tiffany concern, and for 43 years acted as cashier. He was a member of the Society of Old Brooklynites, the New England Society and the Lincoln Club, and was the oldest member and senior deacon of the Washington Ave. Baptist Church. He leaves two sons—former Assemblyman C. H. Cotton and J. W. Cotton, who is head of a department of Tiffany & Co.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 10th November 1909

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The committee of the citizens of Kansas appointed to select a sword to be presented to Brigadier-General Frederick Funston have awarded the contract to Tiffany & Co., New York, after a careful consideration of all the designs submitted to them by jewelers, silversmiths and sword companies.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 23rd August 1899

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Tiffany & Co. have received the contract to do the bronze work in connection with three statues which will be placed in various positions at Newark at the opening of the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of Newark, which will be held next month.

Source: The Metal Record and Electroplater - April 1916

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DETROIT

The solid silver trophy cup recently presented to the Detroit Driving Club by the New York Driving Club is on exhibition in the windows of F. G. Smith, Sons & Co. It is the work of Tiffany & Co.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 17th May 1893

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SYRACUSE, N.Y.

R. S. Moore, an agent for Tiffany & Co., New York, is lying seriously ill at Congress Hall, where he was taken from a New York Central train on Apr. 28.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 10th May 1893

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An important case interesting to jewelers has recently been tried in the courts. Mrs. Roebling, wife of the Chief Engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge, sued the Adams Express Company and Tiffany & Co. for the loss of diamond ear drops worth $3,000, which she had purchased of Tiffany & Co. and sent to them to be repaired, with directions to send the jewels to her at Litchfield, Connecticut. In her complaint she alleged that the package was lost through the negligence of the express company. Tiffany & Co., she urged, were jointly liable, having agreed that they would properly repair said ear rings, and then send them by express to the plaintiff properly and in a business manner. Chief Judge Sedgwick, in the Superior Court sustained Tiffany & Co.’s demurrer to the complaint, holding that it was defective in not alleging or showing that it was a part of the sending by the express company or of a business manner, to put upon the package a mark or indication of its value, or to recognize and comply with the rules and regulations of the express company, or that the doing of these things or either of them was suitable, proper and their duty to insure the safe and prompt delivery to the plaintiff. Leave was given to amend the complaint on payment of costs.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - June 1884

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Charles S. Kingsland, for 40 years connected with the firm of Tiffany & Co., died Tuesday of last week at his home in Claremont Hall, Broadway and 112th St., of pneumonia. He had been ill only a few days. Mr. Kingsland was born in Staten Island in 1838 and at one time was a member of the brokerage firm of Leonard, Kingsland & Wadsworth and was a prominent figure in Wall St. He leaves a widow and one daughter.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 5th May 1909

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James H. Whitehouse on Monday completed 40 years in the service of Tiffany & Co., and his associates of the engraving and designing department, over which he presides, presented to him a handsome silver loving cup, appropriately inscribed and holding 40 American Beauty roses.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 4th May 1898

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Death of Hezekiah D. Sharpe

Hezekiah Davis Sharpe, an old employe of Tiffany & Co., died last Thursday' evening at 23 Garden Place. Brooklyn, from infirmities of old age. Mr. Sharpe was born in Pomfret, Conn., Dec. 9, 1811. He went to New York in 1837, the same year that Horace Greeley, Henry W. Bowen and Charles L. Tiffany migrated to the metropolis, and Greeley, Bowen and Sharpe, meeting frequently and having much in common, became intimate friends and room mates. Mr. Sharpe’s mercantile career was, until the last 20 years, closely identified with the wholesale dry goods business, beginning in 1837 with Arthur Tappen & Co., after which he engaged in business for himself under the firm name of Thorn, Haff & Sharpe. Upon the dissolution of the firm he became associated with Bowen & McNamee. For the last 20 years he has been connected with the clock and bronze department of Tiffany's.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 29th September 1897

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Louis C. Tiffany, of Tiffany & Co., and of the National Academy of Design, has been appointed on a committee to inform the several art societies of the country of a proposed general and retrospective Exhibition of American Art at the Madison Square Garden, to be held in 1892.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 4th February 1891

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In the window of Tiffany & Co. was displayed last month the tanned hide of “Chief Forepaugh,” the erstwhile gigantic elephant. This elephant was ten feet six inches in height, weighed five and one-half tons, and was next in size to Jumbo. The hide averages about three-eighths of an inch in thickness, is of a reddish brown color, and will be converted into traveling bags, dressing cases, etc. The tanning process occupied five months.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - August 1889

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Newark Manufacturers Express Their Grief at the Death of Charles T. Cook, of Tiffany Co.

At the recent meeting of the Manufacturing Jewelers’ Association, of Newark, N. J., action was taken on the death of Chas. T. Cook, of Tiffany & Co., and the following letter has been sent to that house by the officers of the association:


Newark, N. J., Jan. 30, 1907.

Messrs. Tiffany & Co., New York City:

Gentlemen—At the annual meeting of the Manufacturing Jewelers’ Association, of Newark, N. J., held Jan. 28, the death of Charles T. Cook was
referred to with great feeling, and with regret that was much more than formal. Each member realized that he had lost a friend. For by his rare natural endowments, his absolute fairness and his kindness of heart, he not only filled for so many years, perhaps the most commanding position in our trade, but at the same time won the respect and confidence of each one with whom he came in personal contact, and it is the desire of our association to express to you our appreciation of the man, and of the great loss to your company and to the entire trade as well. Permit us to offer our sincere sympathy and to ask you to be kind enough to extend the same to his widow and family. On behalf of our entire membership.

Very sincerely.
G. R. Howe, President.
Harry Durand, Secretary.
A. W. Osmun, Chairman Committee.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 6th February 1907

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