Simons & Miller Plate Co. - historical information

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artdesigncafé - design | Design Meriden | 24 September 2020 | Updated 6 February 2021

A. Simons & Miller Plate Co. designs in collections

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B. Simons & Miller Plate Co. - historical information (by year)

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1870s

Various newspapers, magazines and other sources

(c. 1870-). Various newspapers, magazines and other sources - search engines. (Updated 6 February 2021. R01010).

Online - Silver Collection (Italy) website - Simons & Miller Plate Co.: American Silver Plate marks "S" webpage;
To see a Simons & Miller Plate Co. mark, see Rainwater et. al.’s 2004 encyclopedia entry, online and linked below.
Online - archive.org;
Online - Chronicling America at Library of Congress;
Online - fultonhistory.com (over 40 million historical newspaper pages);
Online - Google Books;
Online - Google News;
Online - HathiTrust Digital Library.

1874 - price list

Simons & Miller Plate Co. (1874). Price list of tea and coffee pots. Number of pages unknown. (Viewed 26 September 2020. C00208-07).

Offline - Meriden Historical Society, Meriden, CT.

1874 - advertisement and directory listing

The Simons & Miller Plate Co. (1874). Advertisement: "... Manufacturers of Fine Silver Plated Britannia and Planished Goods, Tea Sets, Ice Pitchers, Castors, Etc. ... " [with illustration of tea pot], (advertising section at end of directory, p. 114). [Also, listed in directory in Manufacturing Companies section, (p. 219)]. In The Connecticut Business Directory for 1874. Briggs & Co.: Boston. (Viewed 19 October 2020. F01535; F01537; F01549).

Online - Connecticut State Library, Hartford.

2000s

2004 - encyclopedia entry

Rainwater, Dorothy T.; Fuller, Martin; Fuller, Collette. (2004). "Simons & Miller Plate Co." [with mark], (p. 229). Encyclopedia of American silver manufacturers, (revised and expanded 5th ed.). Schiffer Publishing: Atglen, PA. (Viewed 26 September 2020. A02886; A02931; A02931b; E01535.)

Online - Boston Public Library at archive.org. (Email-based registration required.)

Click the following link to see designs and documentation for other historical companies from the Meriden area, and those that were connected to the International Silver Company; go to the historical Meriden design overview page and scroll down to section D: "ISC, predecessors & divisions" and E: "Other featured companies".