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House & Garden 
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Some representa¬ 
tive homes where 
Jewett Refrigera¬ 
tors are used: 
Arthur Curtiss James 
Newport, R. I. 
Vincent Astor 
Rhinebeck, N. Y. 
L. C. Tiffany 
Cold Spring Harbor 
E. J. Marshall 
Pasadena, Calif. 
S. Reading Bertron 
New York 
Guernsey Curran 
East Norwich, L. I. 
Cornelius Vanderbilt 
New York 
Mrs. L. Z. Leiter 
Beverly Farms. Mass. 
Wm. Fahnestock 
Katonah, N. Y. 
Mrs. W. L. McKee 
Bristol, R. I. 
Samuel Mather 
Cleveland, 0. 
Mrs. R. H. Townsend 
Washington 
George Eastman 
Rochester, N. Y. 
John D. Rockefeller 
Pocantico Hills, N. Y. 
William R. Coe 
Oyster Bay, L. I. 
Sir Mortimer B. Davis 
Montreal 
JohnD. Rockefeller, Jr. 
New York 
Sen. W. A. Clark 
New York 
Joseph Leiter 
Washington 
Charles M. Schwab 
New York 
J. Ogden Armour, 
Lake Forest, Ill. 
A. J. Lichtstern 
Glencoe, Ill. 
Mrs. John Hay 
Cleveland, O. 
John Borden 
Lake Geneva, Wis. 
Payne Whitney 
Manhasset, L. I. 
Wm. V. Kelley 
Lake Forest, Ill. 
You Naturally Expect a 
Jewett In Such Homes 
I N America’s finest homes—where quality 
is considered before cost, you invariably 
find Jewett Refrigerators. On the left are a 
few names from the long and ever-growing 
list of distinguished Americans who have 
selected the Jewett because they appreciate 
its preeminent merit. 
The fascination of all real craft products lies in 
their emancipation from restrictions. If a material is 
the finest the world pro¬ 
duces, it is used irrespective 
of cost. If a process makes 
possible greater refine¬ 
ments, it is employed no 
matter how laborious. This 
infinite attention to detail 1 
naturally results in a prod¬ 
uct of unapproachable ex¬ 
cellence. 
Jewett Refrigerators are es¬ 
pecially efficient when used 
with electric refrigerating 
machines because the super¬ 
insulation retains an even, 
low temperature at a mini¬ 
mum cost for current. 
This craftsman attitude 
has made the Jewett a 
superlatively worthy pro¬ 
duct for four generations. 
As an illustration, the 
Jewett’s solid, seamless, 
inch thick porcelain lining 
alone costs more than most 
complete refrigerators. 
Wherever the criterion is simply “the best”—in 
mansions, clubs, and hospitals—there you will al¬ 
ways find the Jewett. 
JVrite for this book 
Investigation shows that not one housekeeper, 
butler or maid in ten knows how to secure the 
best results from a refrigerator. Our little book¬ 
let explains this and many other points of inter¬ 
est and value to every home owner. 
THE JEWETT REFRIGERATOR CO., 
Established 1849 
123 Chandler Street Buffalo, N. Y. 
JEWETT 
SOLID PORCELAIN REFRIGERATORS 
Experiences With 
Dahlias 
(Continued jrom page 76) 
stands on a stiff stem with strong neck, 
makes itself felt in the garden. If you 
will once walk through my gardens, 
where ten thousand blooms thrust their 
insolent beauty in your face, you will 
agree with me. Beauty is enhanced by 
size, and mere size without beauty ex¬ 
cites emotions. For my part I have 
always preferred the eagle to the canary, 
and the elephant to the jackass. 
Many thousands of dahlia lovers, 
many thousands of Garden Club mem¬ 
bers from all over the country visit my 
gardens in autumn. I shall be verj 
glad indeed to receive anyone whe 
wishes to come to my place to see mj 
dahlias and share with me their won¬ 
ders. Horticultural Societies and Gar¬ 
den Clubs, who came last season, shal 
again have permission to visit me anc 
wander through my gardens. It is onl> 
two hours from New York by motor— 
Post Road through Norwalk and West- 
port, Conn. My place is a mile east 
of Westport between the Post Road and . 
the Shore Road. 
The Old Silver of Erin 
(Continued jrom page 31) 
sions objects not to be found carelessly 
grouped in the ensemble of an antique- 
man’s shop? You may consider that I 
offer you an avid occupation, a forlorn 
hope, but let me whisper a secret to 
you: 
One day—and it was not so very long 
ago—I chanced to be discoursing on the 
interesting history of Irish silver to one 
who knew nothing about it. My friend 
was blessed with the Inner Eye, how¬ 
ever, and some photographs I had 
shown were visually taken possession of. 
I had discoursed, too, of the marks on 
early Irish silver and had made a few 
rough sketches of some of them. These 
too were seized upon by the Inner Eye 
and, so equipped, it chanced that my 
friend began to rummage around the 
family silver. Fortunately it was a 
large family, an old family, a careful 
family and an unsuspecting family. 
But I doubt if arly of its members com¬ 
bined the diplomacy, the acuteness, the 
suasion and the Inner Eye that made it 
possible, when next I dined with my 
friend, for him to present on his board 
five pieces of Irish silver—five !—suc¬ 
cessfully gathered within the patriarchal 
precincts. An achievement. 
And so, dear reader, there is no fu¬ 
tility in cultivating the Inner Eye, noth¬ 
ing hopeless in the thought of setting it 
to work. What one cannot acquire 
from the cold outside world does many 
a time await the home explorer. At any 
rate if you can be convinced that this 
is worth believing, you will, perhaps, 
not think it entirely a waste of time to 
give further perusal to these para¬ 
graphs. 
The Fate of Old Plate 
The troublous times which have at¬ 
tended Ireland’s progress have been the 
cause of the rarity of early silver by the 
Irish makers. Again and again, in 
times of stress, much of the old plate 
has been melted up, again and again 
much of it has been practically confis¬ 
cated. In 1686, for instance, two years 
before the Revolution of ’88, the Pro¬ 
vost of Trinity College sold a great 
quantity of the College plate, almost all 
of its domestic plate having been dis¬ 
posed of the preceding year. No new 
plate, or at least very little, was ac¬ 
quired by the College until after the 
Battle of Boyne, 1690. Most of the 
College plate was acquired, piece by 
piece, by gift, from what one might 
term as special students, or non-cor¬ 
porate members of the College, a gift 
more in the order of an entrance tax, 
which afterwards it seems practically to 
have been. Such a piece was the fluted 
cup, ex dono, presented in 1690 by 
“Jacobi Caulfield”, son of Lord Charle- 
mont. 
At one period Trinity College disposed 
of some four thousand ounces of its 
plate in order to obtain funds for the 
purchase of an estate. It is probable 
that a goodly portion of this consign¬ 
ment found its way to the melting-pot. 
It may be that in the transaction were 
included the dozen silver spoons costing 
£4 and the two silver salts costing 
£3-6 which figured in Provost Alvery’s 
expense book for 1605. 
Of the early history of the Irish sil¬ 
versmiths very little is known. But we 
do know that the Goldsmiths Company 
of Dublin had complete direction of all 
Irish goldsmiths and silversmiths, an 
organization, or guild, corresponding to 
the famous Worshipful Company of 
Goldsmiths of London. The original 
articles of incorporation of the Dublin 
company, granted in 1638 by Charles I, 
show it to have been founded by nine¬ 
teen Dubliners (the list presents both 
Irish and English names) and two Hol¬ 
landers. The company was held in high 
esteem and we are told by Mr. Arthur 
Butler that in 1649, when the Gold¬ 
smiths Company of Dublin consented 
to take part in a Dublin civic procession, 
it was considered a great condescension 
on the part of that guild. 
Early Marks 
Between the years 1697 and 1720 
there appears to have been no silver 
of as high a standard as that which is 
known to us by the name of Britannia 
silver made by the Irish silversmiths. 
Just what were the marks on the earli¬ 
est pieces of Irish silver it does not seem 
possible to discover. In the reign of 
Elizabeth the mark may have been an 
Irish harp, as in the reign of James I. 
We can be reasonably certain that prior 
to 1638 letters of the alphabet were in 
use as silver-marks. When Charles I 
granted charter to the Dublin company 
the puncheon to be used was designated 
as “The King’s Majesty’s stamp called 
Harp—Crowned now appointed by his 
said Majesty.” 
The first division of marks which we 
can follow in Irish silver extends to 
1638 to 1658. Through this period a 
series of Roman capital letters, used 
consecutively year by year, maintained. 
The A (1638) is the only letter of this 
series within a fancy shield. 
The second division marks extend 
through 1658-1677, and consist of Old 
English capital letters, while those of 
the third period, 1678-1697, consist of 
Old English capital letters of a more 
pronounced type. We are told that be¬ 
tween 1684-1693 only the letter E ap¬ 
pears on extant pieces. There are, says 
Butler, gaps in letters which indicate 
loss of pieces between 1701-1705 and 
between 1711-1715. However, it is pos¬ 
sible that certain letters may have stood 
for several years different of fabrica¬ 
tion instead of for just one. From 1715 
until 1720 the shield in which the letter 
appears varies in base. In 1718 letters 
in Court Hand appears but do not ex¬ 
tend beyond the letter C. Thereafter 
the Old English alphabet returns. But¬ 
ler says that between 1746-1795 it is ' 
difficult to date pieces from their marks 
definitely. In 1730 the figure of Hiber¬ 
nia seated was introduced as an addi¬ 
tional mark and still another punch was 
added in 1807—the King’s Head. By 
this it will be seen that the Irish Hiber- 
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