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ONCE THE LARGEST SINGLE PIECE OF PLATE GLASS IN NEW YORK

New York


Early last Sunday morning an ordinary building brick was hurled through the large plate glass window in the store of the International Silver Co., 9-13 Maiden Lane. Nothing was taken from the window. It is the belief of the police that the rock was thrown by some intoxicated person or by one of a crowd of youths bent on doing damage. The stone was hurled against the upper part of the window which leads the police to believe that robbery was not the motive, as the hole in the glass was too high for anyone to reach into the show window. The brick was thrown with such force that it broke the large plate glass window, went through another glass in the back and finally crashed through a showcase. The window, it is believed was smashed shortly after 6 o'clock, Sunday morning. After the broken window was discovered, L. B. Hall, vice-president and general manager of the store, was called from his home in Brooklyn. He took a hurried survey and found that nothing had been stolen. He then had the window barracked and guarded. The space in front of the store has been roped off until the broken show window is replaced to prevent possible injury from falling glass. When the window. was installed more than 20 years ago, it was the largest single piece of plate glass put in any store in New York.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 23rd December 1925

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ECCLESIASTICAL SILVER FOR THE LONDON MUSEUM

London


The church council of St. Martin-in-the-Fields have placed on permanent loan at the London Museum a collection of twenty-two pieces of ecclesiastical silver plate, mostly gilt. English work of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The vessels include a pair of silver-gilt flagons bearing the London hall-mark, 1634 and 1746 respectively ; another pair with the London hall-mark, 1726; a chalice bearing the hall-mark 1649, and another that of 1726, both silver-gilt; and a silver-gilt alms dish with the London hall-mark 1720.

Source: The Builder - 3rd August 1923

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