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T. Hirata - Manager
T. Tsurusaki
T. Kunii
T. Iwasaki
Y. Motomura
T. Matsumoto
J. Egashira
K. Kohjija
Nose Dragon & Co. - Shanghai - 1934
T. Hirata - Proprietor
K. Kohijya
T. Tsurusaki
T. Kunii
Y. Toyokawa
A. Kihara
O. Kirada
I. Hisamatsu
S. Morishima
H. Katsuzaki
Nose Dragon & Co. - Shanghai - 1939
The business of T. Hirata.
Member 'AVF' wrote:
The name PING DEE 平田 [pinyin PING TIAN][jyutping PING TIN][shanghaihua BIN DI] spells "HIRATA" in Japanese
The proprietor of NOSE DRAGON - It also operated in Nanjing. - Adrien von Ferscht
Palace Hotel Building, 2, Nanking Road, later, Kiangse Road and Edward Ezra Road, Shanghai
Toyo Murakami - Shanghai - 1922
Toyo Murakami - Shanghai - 1931
Toyo Murakami was in the employ of Kuhn & Komor (see: viewtopic.php?f=38&t=24259&p=59389&hilit=kuhn#p59389) until c.1910. In 1916 he set up business on his own account and continued until at least the 1940's.
Mr. Caplin, jeweller, Seward Road, was slightly injured by collision with a tram car on Saturday afternoon. He was riding a bicycle, and at the corner of Minghong and Miller Roads came into collision with the car. Through the force of the impact he was thrown to the ground, but happily escaped with nothing more serious than a shaking and the loss of one or two teeth.
Source: The North China Herald - 11th October 1913
Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe, Japan and Sydney, Australia
Prominent among the recent trade visitors to the United States from foreign countries is Tokutaro Osawa, managing director of the well-known wholesale watch and jewelry house of Osawa & Co., Kyoto, Japan. Mr. Osawa made an inspection of the watch movement and case factories during his tour of the country, and was much interested in the ingenious machinery and processes of manufacture. From the United States he will go to London, thence to France and Germany, and return home via the Suez Canal. In addition to its large establishment in Kyoto, the firm of Osawa & Co. has branches in Osaka and Kobe, and also in Sydney, N. S. W.
Source: The Keystone - August 1905
Founded in 1890 by Zensuke Osawa. The Sydney branch was established in 1899.
MEI JI 美記 is the name of the artisan workshop; it's Chinese.
The decorative motif is of a peony; symbolises wealth, prosperity and rank.
Identifying birds in Chinese art is notoriously difficult, particularly in silver wares. The peony has a bird perching on a stem; not sure which bird that's supposed to be, but a rooster with peony symbolises 富贵大吉 "fugui daji" - "may you receive wealth, rank and good fortune".
No less the $300,000 in gold bars, watches and rings were stolen by a gang of eight men, four of them armed with pistols, at about 6.30 a.m. yesterday when they broke into the Chu Shing Silver Workshop at 264-265 Rue du Consulat and forced the occupants to give them the key to one of the safes.
There were several apprentices on the premises at the time of the robber's raid and they had just awakened when the bandits, taking advantage of the open back door, slipped into the shop. Once in, the armed men produced their pistols and forced the others into one of the smaller rooms. There they made the men tell them where the keys to the safes were.
While one of them kept guard over the intimidated apprentices, the seven others opened the safe and took ten gold bars and several watches. They then took a number of gold rings from the shop window.
Before leaving the premises, the robbers warned their victims against raising an alarm and it was not until 7.30 a.m. that the apprentices reported the case to the French police. All traces of the robbers had, of course, by then disappeared.
To the Editor of The Watchmaker, Jeweler and Silversmith
Dear Sir, — I am informed by a Government officer that it is a capital offence in China to make a gold article with any alloy. I should be much obliged to you if you had any means of ascertaining if the law is really as severe as this. - W. T. F.
[We believe the officer is quite right, the punishment being decapitation. They have equally severe punishments for certain crimes, but for which they are nevertheless noted, so that something of the same sort of thing may be the case with gold. — Ed.]
Source: The Watchmaker, Jeweler and Silversmith - 1st September 1892
It is reported from Birmingham that some difficulties are being created in the electro-plate trade with China as a result of the present position. Quite a substantial business in electro-plate is done with China by the English manufacturers in the ordinary course. The present crisis may put an end to this rather welcome trade.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 23rd February 1927
The Nanking nationalist government has announced that effective from Sept. 1 throughout all nationalist territory a new import tariff will be imposed. In this schedule jewelry, precious stones, etc., come under the head of Class B luxuries and will be subject to a duty of 30 per cent. according to a cable received last week by the Department of Commerce at Washington, D. C., from A. B. Calderm, American Trade Commissioner at Shanghai.
A visitor in Attleboro last week was Kingoro Ezawa, of Tokio, Japan, who while here was the guest of the D. F. Briggs Co. His visit to this town was inspired by Messrs. Keegan and Rosenkrantz, the Asiatic salesmen of the concern, whom he met in Yokohama a few months ago. Mr. Ezawa brought word that Messrs. Keegan and Rosenkrantz were doing a rushing business, and that they were carrying about them 35 big sample cases of Attleboro jewelry.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 25th November 1903
K. Mikimoto, Tokio, Japan, owner of the noted cultured pearl fisheries in that country and exhibitor of them at the Sesqui, has been visiting this city and the exposition during its closing days having come on from Tokio for that purpose. He speaks no English but through an interpreter told a Jewelers’ Circular reporter he expected to maintain permanent offices in the Packard building here. He expressed his pleasure at the interest aroused here by the famous “Pearl Pagoda” he exhibited at the Sesqui. He spent several days at Ocean City while talking over plans for representation in this country after his return to Japan.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 1st December 1926
E. Navon, a Belgian diamond dealer was robbed sometime ago in Shanghai, at the Kalee Hotel, of his portfolio containing diamonds worth a considerable sum of money. Although the company in which the diamonds were insured immediately indemnified the damage done, Mr. Navon offered a reward for any information that might lead to the discovering of the thief. Five months ago he learned that a broker had offered some square stones, emerald cut, and as stones of this description were among those taken from him he had one of his acquaintance purchase these stones. Through the aid of a French detective the broker who had sold the stones was taken into custody and his accomplices also were arrested, and the culprits sentenced by the French Court of Justice at Shanghai.
