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I was taking a picture of my grandfather's signet ring for my daughter today. It was in the original C. D. Peacock box, from the venerable Chicago jeweler c 1920. When I went to take the ring out, it… (View Post)

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Starting in on the multiple file cabinets of papers, found an 1983 receipt from a Cairo jewelry dealer for a "one $10 Amer in gold... $81" right in line with what has been suggested above. (View Post)

Henry Whitcomb (1799-1886), jeweler and watchmaker in Adams NY c 1825-1880 (View Post)

Quite possibly William Laurain Brecht (1851-1904), founder of the Flint Brick and Coal Company, Des Moines IA --- his first dollar earned? (View Post)