Tiffany & Co, filed notice of appeal, on Oct. 2, from the decision of the San Francisco Superior Court which held that the $80,000 necklace of the former Mrs. John D. Spreckels, Jr., is not chargeable to the estate of the late John D. Spreckles, Jr. The jewels were mysteriously “stolen” from the former Mrs. John D. Spreckels, Jr., who is now Princess Suad Chakir. She bought the necklace from Tiffany’s in London and the present suit has been dragging along for nearly three years. She was to have paid for the necklace in monthly installments. The case involves divorce proceedings of the couple, and an alleged agreement by the ex-husband, now deceased, to pay. The defendants in Tiffany’s suit are John D. Spreckels, Sr., well-known California millionaire, and D. K. Gibson. They are executors of young Spreckels’ estate.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 14th October 1925
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A man who says he is William M. Moore of New York was arrested at the establishment of Tiffany & Co. at Fifth Ave. last Saturday afternoon, after, it is claimed, he tried to pass a worthless check. Moore, it is alleged, has issued fraudulent checks on other Fifth Ave. concerns and, according to the police, is also wanted in Boston, Mass. The prisoner, it is alleged, visited the Fifth Ave. jewelry store early in the afternoon and selected several articles and presented in payment a check for $70. The jewelers would not accept the check but Moore said he would leave it and return later. In the meantime the concern learned that the check was worthless and then notified the police. Detective Connors, of the Fifth Ave. squad, was assigned to the case and when Moore returned he was placed under arrest. When taken to the E. 35th St. station another charge of swindling a Fifth Ave. department store was lodged against the prisoner. The Boston authorities, it is also claimed, want Moore for passing worthless checks in that city.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 12th December 1923
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Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 12th December 1923
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Tiffany & Co. - New York - 1909
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Tiffany & Co. have just completed the manufacture of a gold cup, valued at $1,000, for the Kentucky Racing Commission, to be used as a trophy for the Kentucky Endurance Stakes, to be run Oct. 8.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 24th September 1913
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Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 24th September 1913
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Tiffany et Cie. - Genève - 1876
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Tiffany & Co. - New York - 1930
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Tiffany & Co. - New York - 1877
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Tiffany & Co. - New York - 1907
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George F. Kunz, of Tiffany & Co,, read a paper on the "Fresh Water Pearl Fisheries of the United States," before the International Fisheries Congress, in Tampa, Fla., on January 19th.
Source: The Keystone - February 1898
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Source: The Keystone - February 1898
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Hand Bags With Metal Trimmings Not Dutiable as Jewelry
The protest of Tiffany & Co., New York, against the assessment as jewelry of purses and hand bags trimmed with metal was sustained, Saturday, by the Board of United States General Appraisers.
Gen. T. S. Sharretts wrote an opinion for the board sustaining the contention of the importers that as the metal trimmings were the components of chief value, the goods should be classified as manufactures of metal, subject to a 45 per cent, duty, instead of jewelry dutiable at 60 per cent., reversing the decision of the Collector of the Port.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 20th July 1904
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The protest of Tiffany & Co., New York, against the assessment as jewelry of purses and hand bags trimmed with metal was sustained, Saturday, by the Board of United States General Appraisers.
Gen. T. S. Sharretts wrote an opinion for the board sustaining the contention of the importers that as the metal trimmings were the components of chief value, the goods should be classified as manufactures of metal, subject to a 45 per cent, duty, instead of jewelry dutiable at 60 per cent., reversing the decision of the Collector of the Port.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 20th July 1904
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Tiffany & Co, contributed S100 to the fund of the Red Cross Society for the relief of distress in Cuba.
Source: The Keystone - August 1898
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Source: The Keystone - August 1898
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Tiffany & Co., will exhibit several Spanish battle flags captured by Admiral Dewey in Manila during his famous naval fight.
Source: The Keystone - August 1898
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Source: The Keystone - August 1898
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The employees of Tiffany & Co., in their Forest Hill factory, with the co-operation of the firm, presented last month to Edward Lester, who completed his fiftieth year in the service of his employers, a beautiful silver pitcher. The pitcher was designed and made specially for Mr. Lester, who himself executed the handsome repousse decoration unaware of the intentions of his factory friends.
Source: The Keystone - August 1898
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Source: The Keystone - August 1898
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Mysterious Jewel Robbery
Three Diamonds Valued at $35,000 Stolen from Factory of Tiffany & Co., New York
Diamonds valued at $35,000 disappeared from one of the departments in Tiffany & Co.’s building on Union Sq., New York, about May 4, since which time detectives have been trying in vain to get back the gems. The supposition is that the stones were stolen by some person on the inside, but there is much mystery, unwittingly heightened by the fact that the officers of the company have declined to say anything for publication. This reticence sharpened the appetites of the reporters of the daily papers for details and columns of articles, illustrated and otherwise, have been published since the news leaked out last Saturday.
Acting Captain McCauley of the Detective Bureau made this announcement Monday:
“Three pear-shaped diamonds, valued between $30,000 and $35,000, disappeared from Tiffany & Co.’s establishment, May 3: The dimensions of the stones, as given to us by the firm are as follows: One of 11 3-32 carats, one of 14¾ carats, and one of 12⅞ carats. The police were not notified until May 16.”
The first reports were that three gems, cut from the famous Excelsior diamond, had been stolen and that they represented a value of $90,000. Then this was modified with assertions that the company had not lost any part of the Excelsior diamond, but that a package, comprising besides smaller gems, three large pear-shaped diamonds, valued in all at $35,000, cost price, in the rough, had been taken. Acting Inspector Stephen O’Brien of the Detective department in New York, assigned experts to work on the case, and in addition, it is understood, the Pinkertons and another private detective agency in New York, are working independently. Scotland Yard and detectives in Paris, Amsterdam, Antwerp, and other European cities are on the alert to discover the stones if they reach the European markets. A reward of £1,000 is advertised in London for the return of the stones.
In the jewelry trade there is naturally acute interest-to learn how diamonds could be lost or stolen from an establishment with a system as perfect as that at Tiffany’s, where it is known that business is conducted with clock-like regularity and the precautions against the occurrence of anything of this kind are perhaps as complete as human ingenuity can make them. President C. T. Cook and other officers of the company, when seen by a reporter of The Circular-Weekly said that they were not in a position to give any information in relation to the affair at this time, further than that they hoped that the diamonds would be recovered, and that there have been many misstatements in the daily press. The employes, in accordance with the usual rule, would be unlikely to talk of a happening at the establishment, but in this case secrecy has been specially enjoined. Heads of departments refused to say a word.
Reports that seem trustworthy indicate that the three pear-shaped diamonds were to be used in the setting of a pendant and that at close of work on May 4 the setter turned in at the window of the grille the tissue paper containing the gems on which he had been working. It is the custom for each workman to place his material upon this glass slab and the man inside gathers up the packages and places them in appropriate positions in safes where they remain until they are needed again the next morning. The manager of the department who receives the gems for deposit in the safes, when he reached for the package containing the pear-shaped diamonds on the morning of May 5, could not find them. He at once reported the loss.
The first impression was that the stones in some manner had been mislaid. Thorough search was made in all the departments to ascertain if the missing property had strayed to any other part of the building, but the search was fruitless and finally the detectives were called in to assist.
About 50 men and boys are employed on the fifth floor, from which the stones disappeared, and it is understood that a most thorough investigation has been conducted among them. The men known to have handled the missing diamonds are trusted implicitly, so that not the slightest suspicion attaches to them. The only possible flaws seem in the system, as possibly opening the door to the loss, is that boys are said to carry the gems to and fro without giving or receiving receipts therefor. The detectives also seem to think that although the rules require the checking of the stones when they are returned at night yet this formality is not always observed as men naturally get careless in what becomes a routine.
It has been suggested that the robbery was for purposes of revenge, and in support of this position it is argued that any person sufficiently on the inside to know how to get the stones would also know that it is practically impossible to dispose of them, It is declared that the gems cannot be offered for sale in any part of the world without being recognized. If the person who has possession of the stones tries to get them cut into smaller gems in order to conceal their identity he must find a dishonest cutter having access to the necessary machinery. If an effort were made to cleave the stones by hand they might be destroyed.
Ralph M. Hyde, superintendent; George F. Kunz, gem expert; Paulding Farnum, designer, of the firm, and others who were interviewed by reporters, all declared that they were not at liberty to verify or deny the details as they leaked out from other sources. The setter who last had charge of the stones was Albert Sormani, a trusted Italian workman, with a clean record, who lives with his wife and one child on the top floor of a tenement at 19 Greenwich Ave. The officers of the company have every confidence in Sormani, whose appearance indicates the deep grief that the loss has caused him.
From police sources a report was circulated yesterday that in preparation for moving to its new building at Fifth Ave. and 37th St., a number of outside workmen were employed, about the time of the disappearance of the gems, and that some of them had admission to the fifth floor, which is ordinarily locked to all except employes.
Another report was that a man of foreign appearance called May 12 at the office of Maiden Lane importer, and offered to sell a pear-shaped diamond, which he valued a $50,000. He did not have the gem with him, but said that it was known as the La Belle diamond of Brazil. The importer could not find such a diamond catalogued, and refused to make any arrangements with the stranger until the stone should be shown. The visitor called several times and suggested an arrangement for having the stone cut up so that he could sell a portion. Finally the importer told him to bring the stone. The man agreed to come back with the gem, but did not do so. When the Tiffany robbery was reported the importer at once recalled his visitor, so the story goes, and notified Mr. Cook of the circumstances.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 24th May 1905
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Three Diamonds Valued at $35,000 Stolen from Factory of Tiffany & Co., New York
Diamonds valued at $35,000 disappeared from one of the departments in Tiffany & Co.’s building on Union Sq., New York, about May 4, since which time detectives have been trying in vain to get back the gems. The supposition is that the stones were stolen by some person on the inside, but there is much mystery, unwittingly heightened by the fact that the officers of the company have declined to say anything for publication. This reticence sharpened the appetites of the reporters of the daily papers for details and columns of articles, illustrated and otherwise, have been published since the news leaked out last Saturday.
Acting Captain McCauley of the Detective Bureau made this announcement Monday:
“Three pear-shaped diamonds, valued between $30,000 and $35,000, disappeared from Tiffany & Co.’s establishment, May 3: The dimensions of the stones, as given to us by the firm are as follows: One of 11 3-32 carats, one of 14¾ carats, and one of 12⅞ carats. The police were not notified until May 16.”
The first reports were that three gems, cut from the famous Excelsior diamond, had been stolen and that they represented a value of $90,000. Then this was modified with assertions that the company had not lost any part of the Excelsior diamond, but that a package, comprising besides smaller gems, three large pear-shaped diamonds, valued in all at $35,000, cost price, in the rough, had been taken. Acting Inspector Stephen O’Brien of the Detective department in New York, assigned experts to work on the case, and in addition, it is understood, the Pinkertons and another private detective agency in New York, are working independently. Scotland Yard and detectives in Paris, Amsterdam, Antwerp, and other European cities are on the alert to discover the stones if they reach the European markets. A reward of £1,000 is advertised in London for the return of the stones.
In the jewelry trade there is naturally acute interest-to learn how diamonds could be lost or stolen from an establishment with a system as perfect as that at Tiffany’s, where it is known that business is conducted with clock-like regularity and the precautions against the occurrence of anything of this kind are perhaps as complete as human ingenuity can make them. President C. T. Cook and other officers of the company, when seen by a reporter of The Circular-Weekly said that they were not in a position to give any information in relation to the affair at this time, further than that they hoped that the diamonds would be recovered, and that there have been many misstatements in the daily press. The employes, in accordance with the usual rule, would be unlikely to talk of a happening at the establishment, but in this case secrecy has been specially enjoined. Heads of departments refused to say a word.
Reports that seem trustworthy indicate that the three pear-shaped diamonds were to be used in the setting of a pendant and that at close of work on May 4 the setter turned in at the window of the grille the tissue paper containing the gems on which he had been working. It is the custom for each workman to place his material upon this glass slab and the man inside gathers up the packages and places them in appropriate positions in safes where they remain until they are needed again the next morning. The manager of the department who receives the gems for deposit in the safes, when he reached for the package containing the pear-shaped diamonds on the morning of May 5, could not find them. He at once reported the loss.
The first impression was that the stones in some manner had been mislaid. Thorough search was made in all the departments to ascertain if the missing property had strayed to any other part of the building, but the search was fruitless and finally the detectives were called in to assist.
About 50 men and boys are employed on the fifth floor, from which the stones disappeared, and it is understood that a most thorough investigation has been conducted among them. The men known to have handled the missing diamonds are trusted implicitly, so that not the slightest suspicion attaches to them. The only possible flaws seem in the system, as possibly opening the door to the loss, is that boys are said to carry the gems to and fro without giving or receiving receipts therefor. The detectives also seem to think that although the rules require the checking of the stones when they are returned at night yet this formality is not always observed as men naturally get careless in what becomes a routine.
It has been suggested that the robbery was for purposes of revenge, and in support of this position it is argued that any person sufficiently on the inside to know how to get the stones would also know that it is practically impossible to dispose of them, It is declared that the gems cannot be offered for sale in any part of the world without being recognized. If the person who has possession of the stones tries to get them cut into smaller gems in order to conceal their identity he must find a dishonest cutter having access to the necessary machinery. If an effort were made to cleave the stones by hand they might be destroyed.
Ralph M. Hyde, superintendent; George F. Kunz, gem expert; Paulding Farnum, designer, of the firm, and others who were interviewed by reporters, all declared that they were not at liberty to verify or deny the details as they leaked out from other sources. The setter who last had charge of the stones was Albert Sormani, a trusted Italian workman, with a clean record, who lives with his wife and one child on the top floor of a tenement at 19 Greenwich Ave. The officers of the company have every confidence in Sormani, whose appearance indicates the deep grief that the loss has caused him.
From police sources a report was circulated yesterday that in preparation for moving to its new building at Fifth Ave. and 37th St., a number of outside workmen were employed, about the time of the disappearance of the gems, and that some of them had admission to the fifth floor, which is ordinarily locked to all except employes.
Another report was that a man of foreign appearance called May 12 at the office of Maiden Lane importer, and offered to sell a pear-shaped diamond, which he valued a $50,000. He did not have the gem with him, but said that it was known as the La Belle diamond of Brazil. The importer could not find such a diamond catalogued, and refused to make any arrangements with the stranger until the stone should be shown. The visitor called several times and suggested an arrangement for having the stone cut up so that he could sell a portion. Finally the importer told him to bring the stone. The man agreed to come back with the gem, but did not do so. When the Tiffany robbery was reported the importer at once recalled his visitor, so the story goes, and notified Mr. Cook of the circumstances.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 24th May 1905
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The employes of Tiffany & Co., Union Square, Saturday morning, unfurled a McKinley and Hobart banner at Broadway and 15th St. The banner was bought by subscriptions, only employes being allowed to subscribe.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 14th October 1896
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Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 14th October 1896
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Tiffany & Co. - New York - 1909
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Tiffany & Co. - New York - 1983
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NEW YORK
Mrs. E. P. Cook was arrested in Stern Bros., on 23d St., last Wednesday and charged with shoplifting. When searched, a brooch worth $33 was found on her, which was recognized by R. M. Hyde, of Tiffany & Co., as having been taken from their store. Mrs. Cook was arraigned in Jefferson Market Police Court Friday and held in $1,000 bail.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 25th January 1893
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Mrs. E. P. Cook was arrested in Stern Bros., on 23d St., last Wednesday and charged with shoplifting. When searched, a brooch worth $33 was found on her, which was recognized by R. M. Hyde, of Tiffany & Co., as having been taken from their store. Mrs. Cook was arraigned in Jefferson Market Police Court Friday and held in $1,000 bail.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 25th January 1893
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Tiffany & Co. - New York - 1961
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Tiffany & Co. - New York - 1923
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