Information Regarding Reed & Barton

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Reed & Barton - Taunton, Mass. - 1928

'SIR LANCELOT'

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Reed & Barton - Taunton, Mass. - 1908

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Reed & Barton - Taunton, Mass. - 1908

'HEPPELWHITE'

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AWS To Sponsor Reed & Barton Silver Contest

Valuable scholarship awards, totalling $1,050, are being offered to college women students in the "Silver Opinion Competition" being conducted by Reed & Barton, silversmiths.

Sponsored by Associated Women Students on campus, the contest is based on opinions submitted by entrants on their favorite china patterns, crystal and sterling designs. Each participant's opinion must be in her own words. No limit is set on the number of words. Entries will be judged on the basis of interesting opinions rather than on literary techniques. Closing date for the contest is March 31.

Students interested in entering may contact Beverly Anthony, student representative for Northwestern, for entry blanks and for complete details concerning the competition rules. She will have samples of nine of the most popular Reed & Barton designs so that entrants can see how these sterling paterns actually look.

Source: The Current Sauce - 28th February 1958

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Reed & Barton - Taunton, Mass. - 1906

'THE MARLBOROUGH'

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THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION - PHILADELPHIA 1876


In the same line of manufactures, we find Reed & Barton, of Taunton, Mass. They exhibit a large assortment of wares, nickel and white metal electro-plated. Though not strictly silversmiths, they produce a very rich style of goods, from original and very elegant designs. Their Vase, entitled “Progress,” is worthy of attention, and will bear a close examination. It is five feet long by four and a half high, representing a distinct and intelligible allegory, in which is illustrated the gradual advance from the barbarism of the fifteenth, to the enlightenment of the present century. They are constantly originating artistic designs, and giving employment to five hundred hands.

Source: Four Thousand Years of the World's Progress from the Early Ages to the Present Time. - Samuel J. Burr and S. De Vere Burr - 1878

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Albert D. Monroe, of Monroe & Lane, silversmiths, visited Taunton and vicinity last week, after an absence of eight years. Previous to entering business for himself Mr. Monroe was with Reed & Barton, Taunton, and on this visit he hunted up many old friends and acquaintances.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 6th March 1901

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John Murray, who held a responsible post at the Reed & Barton works, has taken a still more responsible one with one of the leading Attleboro houses and removed his household there.
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The directors of Reed & Barton have elected W. B. H. Dowse, son-in-law of the late Henry Gooding Reed, to succeed him as president of the old corporation. Mr. Dowse is a wealthy, patent lawyer of West Newton, Mass.

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The funeral of the late Henry Gooding Reed, founder of the silver house of Reed & Barton, took place last week. There was a public service at the Winslow Congregational church and prayer at the residence. At the former the employes of the house attended in a body and Rev. T. Clayton
Welles officiated. The floral tributes were very elaborate. The bearers were Theodore Hall, David Howe, William McAusland, George B. Harvey. John Rogers, Charles Minsheu, A. F. Jackson and William Rayment.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 13th March 1901

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Reed & Barton - Taunton, Mass. - 1989

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The silver service to be presented to the cruiser Montana by the State of Montana was taken recently from the store of Hight & Fairfield, Anaconda, Mont., and shipped to Helena, where it will be exhibited. The members of the commission which awarded the contract have sent a letter to Huber Bros., Dillon, Mont., under date of May 18, congratulating the firm on the excellence of the service and in the highly satisfactory manner in which the contract was executed by them, through the Reed & Barton Co.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 3rd June 1908

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At the Fifth Ave. store of the Reed & Barton Co. there has been on exhibition during the past week a working model of a 23-jewel Waltham watch movement enlarged 10 diameters. The exhibit is encased in a glass case and has attracted much attention from passers-by.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 17th June 1908

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Reed & Barton - Taunton, Mass. - 1905

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Reed & Barton - Taunton, Mass. - 1928

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EDWARD A. HEWITSON

Edward A. Hewitson, ...... He was born in Taunton, Mass., June 8, 1872, and after completing the grades in the public schools spent three years as a student in the Taunton High School. He then entered the employ of Reed & Barton, manufacturing silversmiths, and for seven years was with that well-known and reliable firm, being connected with the department of design. Finally severing his connection with Reed & Barton, he began the manufacture of silver novelties and trimmings at Northampton, Mass., conducting business under the firm name, Edward A. Hewitson & Company. Mr. Hewitson continued in business in Northampton until 1905.

Source: The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations - 1920

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An interior image of the New York store of Reed & Barton located at 37, Union Square:



This image was published in 1895.

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Reed & Barton - Taunton, Mass. - 1918

'FRANCIS FIRST'

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Reed & Barton - Taunton, Mass. - 1950

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Reed & Barton flatware patterns from 1986:


Reed & Barton - 1986

'1800' - 'COUNTRY FRENCH' - 'COLONIAL SHELL' - 'BARCLAY' - 'ROSECLIFF' - 'REGATTA'

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The Reed & Barton silver works have turned out a set of handsome sterling silver loving cups, of graceful design and excellent workmanship, which will serve for the prizes of the automobile department of the annual Bristol County Fair. Some local pride entered into getting out a nice thing, as the fair is held in Taunton, the home city of the company.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 5th September 1906

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REED & BARTON

The old established house of Reed & Barton, Taunton, Mass., have for years enjoyed a world-wide reputation as manufacturers of nickel and silver plated wares, and when some four years ago they announced their intention of adding a complete new line of sterling silver, something out of the ordinary was expected of them. Abundance of capital, the pride of fifty years of successful effort and a determination to lead and not to follow, prompted them to select a field comparatively untried in this country—that of enameling on silver.

Experts from abroad had to be engaged to train the large force of employes in the secrets and niceties of the art. Some branches of the work which they undertook were quite new as a manufactured product, the art having been pursued abroad by individual artists, whose field was necessarily very limited, and who preserved the secrets of their craft jealously guarded from the curious eye. To-day the American public can feast their eyes upon the handsomest line of hand painted enameled silver goods made anywhere in the world. Another and very beautiful class of work which Reed & Barton are now producing with much success, consists of a combination of enamel with gold of different colors. Although they have been only a few years engaged in the manufacture of sterling silver, they have produced beside this superb enamel work, a number of very fine sample patterns in flat ware.

Reed & Barton have for some years been a corporation, of which the present officers are: Henry G. Reed, president; Geo. Braybrooke, treasurer; and F. L. Fish, secretary. Mr. Reed has been connected with the business for over sixty years, having served his apprenticeship with the old firm of Babbitt & Crossman, the predecessors of Reed & Barton. The name of Reed & Barton was adopted in 1837 and has since been retained.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 7th February 1894

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