Information Regarding Reed & Barton

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Sinclair Weeks, president of the Reed & Barton Co., Taunton, Mass., has returned to the eastern factory, after a tour of the Pacific Coast, going from Los Angeles up as far as Seattle.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 30th August 1928

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Death of Enoch Reed

Veteran Salesman for Reed & Barton Co. a Victim of Heart Disease

Boston, June 25.—Enoch Reed, for 43 years a silverware salesman for the Reed & Barton Co., died suddenly June 20 in his 67th year, following an acute attack of heart disease. As dean of the company’s sales staff he was to have entertained the other salesmen at a dinner at Taunton that day as part of their annual meeting. Mr. Reed was well known in Boston, and his many friends here deeply regret his passing The sympathy of the trade is extended to the bereaved.

Mr. Reed was born in Delphi, Ind., on Feb. 1, 1862. After finishing his school days he learned the trade of an engraver with the firm of A. R. Knights & Bro., in Dubuque, Iowa. While thus employed he became acquainted with the late Luther Hyde, then and for a number of years the manager of the New York store of the Reed & Barton Co.

Mr. Hyde recognized the young man’s ability and personality and through his efforts Mr. Reed came east in 1885 and was given a position on the sales force of the Reed & Barton Co., a position in which he was eminently successful from the start, and which, with steadily increasing responsibilities which he discharged in so able a manner as to command the lasting confidence and esteem of the management, he held for 43 years.

He handled the sterling silver line in the principal cities of the United States from Philadelphia throughout the entire middle west, and, through his business-like methods, his unfailing courtesy, and sterling good fellowship, built up a wonderfully wide acquaintance which was not only an asset to his firm but a source of inestimable pleasure to himself. Many men have traveled as far or as many years as Mr. Reed, but few, if any, have made a larger circle of real and sincere friends in the range of their trade.

Mr. Reed married Ella Crossman, who passed on a few years ago. He is survived by one daughter, Dorothy, wife of W. Raymond Pepler of this city, and two nieces in the west.

He was a member of Charles H. Titus Lodge, A. F. & A M.; St. Mark’s Royal Arch Chapter, St. John’s Commandery, Palestine Temple of the Mystic Shrine. The Taunton Winthrop Club and the Segregansett Country Club.

The popularity which came to Mr. Reed was due not alone to his sterling and honorable business qualities, but to a wonderfully fine and balanced disposition. Genial, companionable and kindly, he combined with these traits a fund of dry and whimsical humor which he had the faculty of using in such a manner as to invariably amuse and never annoy.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 28th June 1928

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Reed & Barton - Taunton, Mass. - 1958

DIAMOND PATTERN

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As announced in the last issue of The Jewelers' Circular, the Reed & Barton Corp. of this city has consolidated with Dominick & Haff, Inc., controlling the M. C. Chesney Co. of Newark, N. J. All three concerns are manufacturers of sterling silverware, and the consolidation, according to President Sinclair Weeks of the Reed & Barton Corp., will ultimately mean largely increased activity at the Taunton plant which now employs about 750 workers.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 19th January 1928

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Reed & Barton - Taunton, Mass. - 1958

CLASSIC ROSE - SILVER SCULPTURE - ROSE CASCADE

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Reed & Barton - Taunton, Mass. - 1950

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Reed & Barton - Taunton, Mass. - 1950

DANCING FLOWERS

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Reed & Barton - Taunton, Mass. - 1917

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Reed & Barton - Taunton, Mass. - 1928

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LOS ANGELES

E. J. Gorman, representative for the Edson Adams Co., San Francisco, was in Los Angeles last week, having just returned from a lengthy trip to the Reed & Barton factories in the East, for which the Edson Adams Co. is Pacific Coast representative. Mr. Gorman also visited the factories of Krementz & Co. and T. G. Hawkes & Co., Corning, N. Y.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 26th July 1928

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W. D. Flagg, of the advertising department of Reed & Barton, Taunton, has been m New York lately on business.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 1st August 1906

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Chauncey Smith, representing the Reed & Barton corporation, has completed a three weeks business trip through the northwest, and reports business there as favorable.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 2nd June 1926

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Reed & Barton Silversmiths of Taunton, Mass., in cooperation with Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, will exhibit silver designs from their competition for Italian designers, Oct. 14-Nov. 14 in the Metropolitan Boston Arts Center. First prize was awarded to the brothers Castiglioni for the design called “Dulce.” Others who submitted designs were: Franco Albini, Constantino Corsini, Angelo Mangiarotti, Roberto Mango, Carlo Mollino, Bruno Morassutti, Carlo Scarpa, and Marco Zanuso.

Source: The Christian Science Monitor - 12th October 1960

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Reed & Barton - Taunton, Mass. - 1970

VIENNA

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BOSTON

The Reed & Barton Boston office has been moved from 6 Beacon St. to the new office, Room 1014, Statler building.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 8th March 1928

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Reed & Barton - Taunton, Mass. - 1904

POPPY - WILD ROSE - NECTARINE - PETUNIA - PEONY

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Reed & Barton - Taunton, Mass. - 1950

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H. M. Lane, representing Reed & Barton in Chicago, is at the factory at Taunton, Mass., to look after new goods and confer with the officers of the company.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 11th January 1893

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NEW YORK

Reed & Barton are having the exterior of their store on Union Sq. repainted and decorated.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 29th July 1891

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Reed & Barton - Taunton, Mass. - 1946

'GUILDHALL' - 'FRAGRANCE' - 'GEORGIAN ROSE' - 'FRENCH RENAISSANCE' - 'POINTED ANTIQUE' - 'FRANCIS FIRST'

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