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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.
AdvertisingFrom colorful Victorian trade cards of the 1870s to the Super Bowl commerci…
Whiting SilverFounded in Attleboro, Massachusetts, in 1866 by William Dean Whiting, who h…