Antique Art Deco Gold Silver T Yellow Guilloche Purple Pansy Dance Compact DFBCo


Antique Art Deco Gold Silver T Yellow Guilloche Purple Pansy Dance Compact DFBCo

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Antique Art Deco Gold Silver T Yellow Guilloche Purple Pansy Dance Compact DFBCo:
$75.00


Antique Art Deco Compact

Gold & Silver Tone Metal

Round Shape

Art Deco & Floral Motif

Yellow Guilloche Enamel Front

Hand Painted Purple Pansy Floral

Engine Turned Starburst Pinstripe & Floral Front & Back

Engraved Beveled Sides

Ball Clasp

BarChain Watch Fob Handle

Gold Tone Interior

1 PowderCompartment

1 Powder Cake Plate

1 Puff

1 NiceMirror

Piano Hinge

Maker Marked\"D.F.B. Co\"

D.F. Briggs CoAttleboro Chain Co. - Attleboro, Mass. - 1908A REMARKABLE STORY OF INDUSTRIAL ACHIEVEMENT
It is creditably narrated that about the year 1780 a deserter from the Continental Army, Bedford by name, settled in the ancient town of Attleboro and established there a small shop for the manufacture of jewelry, and that this is the chance-sown seed out of which has grown one of the largest and most successful of New England\'s industries.
To-day AttlebFor it is by no means true that when the visitor has seen one of these factories he has seen all. Particularly the stranger in Attleboro should inquire for the great factory of the D. F. Briggs Company, for years a well-known name throughout the jewelry trade of the world. The business is now owned by C. H. and W. C. Tappen, who have also purchased the very valuable right to use the D. F. Briggs name. The export trade of this firm is exceedingly large. Making a specialty of chains, bracelets, and rings, they send them in fabulous quantities to even\" corner of the globe. In addition to its bar-gold, silver, and other metals, the factory melts down an average of $1,500 of coin-gold daily. This coin-gold is largely used for its convenience of form for certain manufacturing purposes, and the ease and exactness with which the value in use may be instantly computed. It is one of the fine things about the business that it has this tendency, because of the material employed, to develop minute accuracy and honesty. And it is this reliability of Attleboro jewelry and jewelers – the fact that it is always just what it claims to be – that has given to such firms as the D. F. Briggs Company their world-wide market.oro jewelry goes to all parts of the world. Within a week one of her many enterprising firms, the D. F. Briggs Company, has shipped a case of twenty dozen bracelets to deck the dusky arms of the beauties of Singapore. India, Arabia, Africa, China, Japan, and the islands of the sea are all open and well-known markets to the dainty product of this vigorous Massachusetts town.
With still greater pride may her citizens point to the fact that this splendid industrial victory has been achieved in strict accordance with the best American ideals. Whereverthe Attleboro banner floats, and it is well to the front on all the great \"battlefields of business,\" it is a symbol of the triumph of the great American idea of open competition. No trust-control or secret tradeagreements mar the business-methods of these great factories. In fact it is difficult to imagine a more wholesome condition than that which prevails.
The \"help\" is well paid, contented, intelligent. The Trade Union idea has gained no foothold. The majority of the factory owners live in the town, and many of them have risen from the bench to the control and ownership of great factories where the stranger is amazed to see acres of floor-space devoted to the construction of all kinds of metallic and jeweledornament. Everywhere is the clink of gold, and the gems of Golconda are handled by the shovelful.
One Attleboro bank supplies more than a million dollars of Uncle Sam\'s gold coin to these factories to be melted down. Bargold is also used, but most of the factories prefer to use coin-gold – a not insignificant item for the calculations of the United States Mint.
The Attleboro jewelry trade and its allied industries employ more than six thousand operatives, about half of them young women. Many of the latter come from the neighboring towns and cities. Eleven carloads of young women go back and forth from the city of Taunton daily. These girls are well paid and self-respecting. The moral tone of the manufacturing community is remarkably clean and wholesome. The working-day is ten hours. The wages paid average higher than those of textile mills, and Attleboro
Of the working-people resident in Attleboro, a large proportion own their homes. Native Americans are still in the majority, although there are many Germans, and latterly large numbers of Swedes, and they are working their way to the front.For it is by no means true that when the visitor has seen one of these factories he has seen all. Particularly the stranger in Attleboro should inquire for the great factory of the D. F. Briggs Company, for years a well-known name throughout the jewelry trade of the world. The business is now owned by C. H. and W. C. Tappen, who have also purchased the very valuable right to use the D. F. Briggs name. The export trade of this firm is exceedingly large. Making a specialty of chains, bracelets, and rings, they send them in fabulous quantities to even\" corner of the globe. In addition to its bar-gold, silver, and other metals, the factory melts down an average of $1,500 of coin-gold daily. This coin-gold is largely used for its convenience of form for certain manufacturing purposes, and the ease and exactness with which the value in use may be instantly computed. It is one of the fine things about the business that it has this tendency, because of the material employed, to develop minute accuracy and honesty. And it is this reliability of Attleboro jewelry and jeweler – the fact that it is always just what it claims to be – that has given to such firms as the D. F. Briggs Company their world-wide market.

Very Nice Condition

Very Pretty Design

Measures Approx 2 1/2\" x 2 1/2\" x 1/2\"

Bar Chain Drop MeasuresApprox 4\"

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Antique Art Deco Gold Silver T Yellow Guilloche Purple Pansy Dance Compact DFBCo:
$75.00

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