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These are two 1950 magazine advertisements for the Frank M. Whiting & Co., Meriden, Connecticut. The sterling flatware patterns shown are Botticelli, Princess Ingrid, Victoria, Talisman Rose, Puritan, Lily, Adams, Troubadour, and Georgian Shell. One full page, one half page B&W ad.
FRANK M. WHITING CO - North Attleboro, MA
Origin as Holbrook Whiting & Albee in the 1870s. The firm was changed to F.M. Whiting & Co (1878), F.M. Whiting (1891), F.M. Whiting Co (1895) and Frank M. Whiting & Co (1896). From 1940 became a division of Ellmore Silver Co and went of of business 1960.
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