Information Regarding R. Blackinton & Co.

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Howard M. Ballou of R. Blackinton & Co., who has been in the aviation branch of the navy, is home on an indefinite furlough, awaiting the arrival of discharge papers.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 4th December 1918

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Elphete Venard, for several years in the employ of R. Blackinton & Co., died at his home, Fisher St., suddenly on Monday last. He was born in Canada.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 4th February 1925

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Armond E. Braden, for the past 18 months in the employ of R. Blackinton & Co., 3 Maiden Lane, is no longer with that concern.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 25th March 1908

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R. Blackinton & Co. - North Attleboro, Mass. - 1908

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R. Blackinton & Co., North Attleboro, Mass., are making a feature of combinations in toilet and manicure sets, arranged in silk-lined cases. For the past few years they have met with such success, considering the few patterns which they have made in these goods, that the decision to make an extensive line this year was determined upon. The line on exhibition at the New York office is handsome beyond expression.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 4th July 1906

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The firm of R. Blackinton & Company was established in 1862 by Roswell Blackinton, Walter Ballou and Thomas Mann, manufacturing book-clasps, at that time particularly the clasps for Bibles used by the soldiers during the Civil War. Mr. Mann retired in 1867, and upon the death of Mr. Blackinton, in 1906, the firm became composed of Roswell Blackinton, Jr., Walter R. Ballou and John R. Morss. The output today is almost exclusively sterling silver.

Source: A History of Bristol County, Massachusetts - Edited by Frank Walcott Hutt - 1924

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