Information Regarding Wright, Kay & Co.

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Wright, Kay & Co. have issued a little booklet of 32 pages, containing a reprint of industrial editorials on the war, which have appeared recently in the Detroit Saturday Night, and which were written by Harry M. Nimmo, the editor of that journal. The booklet takes its title from the leading editorial — "The Gas Attack on American Business," which was recently reprinted in The Jewelers’ Circular. The imprint of Wright, Kay & Co. appears on the title cover.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 24th April 1918

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Wright, Kay & Co., 238 Woodward Ave., are now finally installed in the ground floor quarters of their remodeled building. The store front and display windows are of the most modern design and make a fine impression on shoppers on Detroit’s main thoroughfare. The new location is being impressed and standardized in the minds of the public by striking colored lithographs in the street cars, showing a close up view of the store corner, up to the first floor. The firm occupies the entire building, but the pictures show only the immediate corner to make the store front more striking and familiar to the public. “Our new corner” is the only text that appears on the street car card, in addition to the firm’s name and address.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 8th September 1920

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Wright, Kay & Co., of Detroit, furnished the menu cards for the banquet of the Sons of the Revolution held January 17th, and also for the Cornell University dinner held in Ithaca, N. Y., February 2d.

Source: The Keystone - February 1898

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Mr. Kay, representing Wright, Kay & Co., jewelers, Detroit, was in Toronto last week.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 2nd September 1896

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George Strale, of the fraternity department of Wright, Kay & Co., has been at Providence Hospital recently as the result of a very severe attack of appendicitis.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 18th November 1914

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An example of the Wright, Kay & Co. retailer mark, stuck on a spoon by J.B. & S.M. Knowles:



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A fight between two young men shortly after midnight one night last week resulted in the smashing of one of the show windows of Wright, Kay & Co. A member of the firm was called by the police and investigation showed nothing had been stolen.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 31st March 1915

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A large cut-glass door panel recently attracted a lot of attention in Wright, Kay & Co.’s window, The panel was cut by the Simms Cut Glass Manufacturing Co., a new enterprise, and is said to be superior to any foreign cut work. It is cut by machinery invented by Joseph Simms, who came to Detroit from Bohemia, the home of cut glass, three years ago; and started his shop in a modest way at Twenty-first and Porter Streets. L. B. King & Co, and Wright, Kay & Co, became interested in his work, with the result that a company was formed and capitalized at $30,000, with the intention of establishing a factory in Detroit for the manufacture of cut-glass door and window panels.

Source: The Keystone - April 1906

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William Hamburgh, of Wright, Kay & Co., left for New York, last Friday, for a stay of 10 days.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 18th November 1908

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Percy K. Loud of Wright, Kay & Co., retail jewelers, has recently been elected secretary of the Merchants' Credit Bureau of Detroit. The annual tri-state convention of the bureau of credit managers will be held in Toledo, Ohio, on Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 11 and 12, at the Commodore Perry Hotel.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 7th February 1929

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Art. Hambaum, formerly in the repair department of Wright, Kay & Co., is now in the electrical department of the Ford Motor Co.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 7th April 1915

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Wright, Kay & Co. - Detroit - 1905

RALPH DEWEY - Paris Representative, 34, Avenue de l'Opéra.

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William G. Hamburg, vice-president of Wright, Kay & Co., Woodward Ave., at Grand River Ave., has gone on his annual vacation to Florida points. On his way to the east to take a steamer for Tampa, he stopped in New York long enough to attend the annual banquet of the Jewelers’ 24-Karat Club.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 19th February 1919

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DETROIT

William Barker, formerly with Wright, Kay & Co., has joined the sales force of James H. Garlick, 168 Griswold St.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 14th January 1920

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Wright, Kay & Co. - Detroit - 1905

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Two prominent Detroit retail jewelry firms are to take possession of new quarters May 1, and will begin alterations which will add greatly to the reputation of Woodward Ave. for handsome stores. Wright, Kay & Co., who are now located on Woodward Ave., at the corner of the Campus Martius, will then secure possession of the six-story building at the northwest corner of Woodward and Grand River Aves., while Traub Bros., 118 Woodward Ave., will take over the building at the southeast corner of that avenue and Congress St.

John Kelsey and Henry Wright, of Wright, Kay & Co., have returned from New York, where they made a study of the large jewelry stores. The new store will be patterned to a considerable extent after the model New York shops. It will have excellent show window space, the entire front and side of the main floor being of plate glass. A scheme of decorations and cases has been selected which will be beyond anything before attempted in Detroit. Since making the lease for this property the firm has been offered as high as $50,000 for the lease, but has refused. One floor of the new Wright, Kay & Co. building will be used for their factory and stationery department. Another floor will be occupied by the E. H. Pudrith Co., wholesale jewelers, while the three remaining floors are to be rented to other concerns. The alterations will require from six weeks to two months, so that it will be July 1 in all probability before the new store is opened.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 13th April 1910

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Wright, Kay & Co.’s old building, which they have occupied for 30 years or more, is on the market for a tenant.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 1st June 1910

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DETROIT

John Kay, for many years connected with Wright, Kay & Co., importers and retail jewelers at 144 Woodward Ave., has sold out his interests to the other stockholders, who include H.M. Wright, Wm. G. Hamburg, A.W. Buchbinder, F.A. Kelsey and Robert D. Kay. At present Mr. Kay is in the east, and on his return is to start in business as a retailing and manufacturing jeweler.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 17th April 1907

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Percy K. Loud, Wright Kay & Co., retail jewelers, has recently been elected secretary of the Merchants’ Credit Bureau. The other officers are identified with various lines of trade.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 23rd February 1927

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Wright, Kay & Co. are receiving much favorable comment regarding its orange electric sign. The lights are about as striking in the day time as in the night. They set out the Wright, Kay & Co. store on Woodward Ave., in a most noticeable manner.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 23rd February 1927

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