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M.T. Goldsmith & Co.. manufacturers of silver plated toilet sets, sterling-silver novelties, etc., are now occupying the factory at 103 Oliver St., Newark, N.J., formerly conducted by the late Frank Mauser.
Source: The Brass World and Platers' Guide - January 1909
Frank O. Coombs, Bernard W. Wunder — Manufacturers, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Fine Cigars, Tobacco, Smokers' Articles, etc.—No. 5 Anawan Block, Attleborough
Mr. Bernard W. Wunder, who established himself here two years ago last spring, is an experienced and skillful practical cigar-maker and energetic, enterprising business man, who also gives his many customers pleasant business calls at different times during the year. March 14 last he formed a copartnership with Mr. Frank O. Coombs, a wide-awake, capable and progressive man, and formerly a partner in the firm of Frank Mauser & Co., silversmiths, No. 30 Union square, New York. Mr. Coombs will in the future devote his undivided efforts to the advancement of the new firm's interests, and his wide acquaintance, industry and popularity augur well for a prosperous career. The Bristol cigar store occupies the capacious store No. 5 Anawan block, in the heart of the business district, is elegantly fitted up and heavily stocked with choice goods, embracing the best and most popular grades of fine imported, Key West and domestic cigars, smoking and chewing tobacco, pipes and smokers' articles of every description, which are offered to the trade and consumers in large or small quantities at prices as low as can be quoted in Boston or New York for similar grades. They also employ several superior workmen and manufacture certain favorite brands of their own, among which the "Bristol," "American Eagle" and "Henry Clay" are especially worthy the attention of fastidious smokers. The Bristol Cigar Company has a flourishing and rapidly increasing trade in this and adjoining States, and leaves nothing undone to merit the confidence of dealers and consumers.
Source: Inland Massachusetts Illustrated - Elstner Publishing Company - 1891
FRANK C. COOMBS, Republican, of North Attleborough, was born in Providence, R. I., Dec. 17, 1857; educated in North Attleborough public schools and a Providence commercial college. With the White Mfg. Co. of New York, and then with Frank Mauser & Co., silverware, senior member of the firm, New York; then with Reed & Barton, Taunton, in charge of the designing and engraving for the general trade in jewelry and silverware in silverware department; a designer, engraver and die sinker from 1891 to 1905, when he retired. Past grand of Aurora lodge of Odd Fellows, member of Howard encampment; representative to grand lodge; past chancellor of Sumner lodge Knights of Pythias, representative to grand lodge; Mt. Washington court Foresters of America of Boston. On committee on railroads in House of 1907, acting clerk most of session; on ways and means, and counties in House of 1908.
Source: A Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators - Arthur Milnor Bridgman - 1908
The Mount Vernon Company Silversmiths, Inc., has been incorporated in Mount Vernon, N. Y., and has taken over the following concerns: The Roger Williams Silver Company of Providence, R. I., the Mauser Mfg. Co.. of Mount Vernon, N. Y., H. A. Macfarland of Mount Vernon. N. Y., and the Mount Vernon Company of Mount Vernon, N. Y. The manufacture of sterling silver goods and silver deposit ware will be carried on.
Source: The Brass World and Platers Guide - January 1914
In a patent issued to Max Ams of Mount Vernon, N. Y., president of the Mauser Mfg. Co. of the same place, the use of mineral wool and agar-agar in connection with plaster of Paris is claimed. Mineral wool is a material made from slag and which has an appearance similar to asbestos. The object of the agar— agar, the inventor says, is to render the mold plastic and so that undercut portions of the pattern may be removed. Agar-agar is a Japanese vegetable jelly.
Source: The Brass World and Platers Guide - May 1906
E. J. Cadigan. representing the Mauser Manufacturing Company, of New York, is here this week at the Parker House showing a fine line of silver novelties.