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vathek

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iconnumber posted 02-15-2008 12:35 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for vathek     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Picked this up today and can't find any reference except to a jeweler/silversmith named Schroth, but it's not clear if there is a a connection. Does anyone know this maker?


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FredZ

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iconnumber posted 02-15-2008 01:04 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for FredZ     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Found an online attribution of the mark to a New Jersey firm.

Schroth's Jewelers . 337 Main Road, Montville NJ 07045 tel 973 335 3400 fax 973 335 7964

The rather rough workmanship seems to match the examples on their website.

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vathek

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iconnumber posted 02-15-2008 01:34 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for vathek     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
thanks Fred, that's pretty much what I came up with, and I agree it is kind of rough workmanship.

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FredZ

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iconnumber posted 02-15-2008 07:59 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for FredZ     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Further research mentions Wolfgang Schroth as the silversmith. I believe my friend Rich Reitz apprenticed with him in the late 60s. Schroth's shop made items for Cartier and Jensen. Schroth worked as a silversmith for Tiffany & Co.

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vathek

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iconnumber posted 02-16-2008 12:29 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for vathek     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks again Fred. With the first name to go on I found that he was actually head silversmith at Tiffany before purchasing the Hickok-Matthew Co. and moving to NJ. I wonder if he actually made this piece or it's a 'branded' piece.

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Ulysses Dietz
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iconnumber posted 02-16-2008 01:01 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ulysses Dietz     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
It has been a long time, but well into the 1980s the Schroth family ran a shop and were retailers of silver and jewelry as well as selling their own hand-made goods (made by members of the family, as I recall). I can remember going into their shop anonymously and looking over their silver objects early in my career as I was pondering acquisitions of modern silver for The Newark Museum. I had not heard about the Schroth connection with Tiffany and then with Hickock-Matthew (formerly Eleder-Hickock, formerly Lebkeucher, I believe, all Newark based). What I also remember is that I wrote to the Schroths and formally requested that they sell us (SELL, not donate) pieces of their silver to make sure that their work in NJ was documented. Never heard back from them.

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