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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bakersgma, post: 226587, member: 59&quot;]And the business was gone by 1915, anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>From Rainwater&#039;s Encyclopedia of American Silver Manufacturers, a brief summary.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tufts registered his trademark in 1875. Earliest products were intended for use in &quot;soda fountain&quot; settings, but he branched out into other silverplated &quot;hollowware&quot; items (such as this urn.) Ill health caused him to turn the everyday management over to others in 1895. He bought 5000 acres in North Carolina and founded the resort town of &quot;Pinehurst.&quot; He died there in 1902. The business continued but was no longer operating sometime before 1915.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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