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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 07-30-2009 03:57 AM
  
Here's the mark for a spoon that was retailed by a Mobile jeweler that I personally didn't know anything about until very recently. It is a simple threaded fiddle pattern teaspoon by Wood & Hughes. The retailer was Andrew Poetz who was born 12 November 1827 in Hanau, Germany. He is commonly believed to have arrived in Mobile in 1848, and started in the jewelry business on his own in 1854. There is a watchmaker named Andrew Portz who was born in Germany in about 1820 and who was listed in the 1850 U S Federal Census for Mobile, Alabama. I personally am willing to accept that Portz was Poetz. Portz's name in the 1850 census come right after a French born Julius Letendall who was also a watchmaker. I take Letendall to be Julius Lilienthal who I believe is credited with starting out in Mobile and later working in New Orleans. A Poetz is next listed in the 1855 Alabama State Census in Mobile County. Andrew Poetz is in the 1860 U S Federal Census for Mobile Alabama as a merchant. In that same census a sixty year old A Knapp is listed in Andrew's household. A Poetz is listed in Mobile census's and in directories as a jeweler for the remainder of the nineteenth century. At the time of Andrew's death, 28 March 1899, his was the oldest jewelry house in Mobile. After Andrew's death the business was continued under the same style, A Poetz & Co. IP: Logged |
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