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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 01-29-2006 05:36 PM
  
I continue to clean out the dusty boxes. Here's a handful of question marks: On a generic fiddleback teaspoon On a fiddleback butter knife of good weight On a fiddleback condiment ladle more to come IP: Logged |
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ahwt Posts: 2334 |
posted 01-29-2006 10:00 PM
For Prouhet and Witt: Hyppolite Prouhet, silversmith and watchmaker, was born in 1823 in Belancour, France. He immigrated to the U.S. and between 1845 and 1850 apprenticed with Thomas Dudley Witt. Prouhet married Judith Benson of Union County, Kentucky on May 8, 1850 and spent 1850-54 farming in Union, Kentucky. He also advertised as a watchmaker. He was in business in St. Louis by 1854 and a partner with Thomas Dudley Witt in 1857. Mr. Witt was born in Albion, New York in 1833 son of Thomas and Electice Cole Witt. His paternal grandfather Abner Witt served in the Revolutionary War from 1776-80. Mr. Thomas Witt enlisted in the Union army in February 1862 and mustered out in late summer of 1865 and resumed his partnership with Prouhet. In 1872 he was hired by Jaccard and was ultimately president of the concern. All of this comes from “Missouri’s Silver Age”, by Norman ‘Mack. The entries for these men is somewhat confusing in Mack’s book as in the entry for Stephen Jett, Thomas D. Witt is listed a being born in Illinois and age 15 in the year 1850. IP: Logged |
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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 01-30-2006 05:26 PM
Thank you for the information. As it happens, Thomas Dudley fit right into the Witt and Cole family lines in my project, so that's another silversmith added. IP: Logged |
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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 01-31-2006 08:17 PM
I have discovered that R. Evits was a silversmith and jeweler in Le Roy NY c 1800-1830. He is not listed in Darling and I am hoping to get further details from the local historical group, which I will post when received. IP: Logged |
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swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 |
posted 06-20-2006 09:55 PM
I knew that Z. Clark is Zebulon Clark, but I could not a find a reference. I saw one for sale the other day with the claim that it is southern - maybe Louisiana? IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 05-31-2008 05:50 AM
quote:There was a jeweler named Rensellear Evits in Bronson, MI in 1835. IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 05-31-2008 12:01 PM
There's also a silversmith named Justis Everitt in New York City at No 27 Pearl Street in 1807. IP: Logged |
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