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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 389243, member: 111&quot;]Ellis Newton of Birmingham registered the trademark for &#039;Virginia Gold&#039; in 1883.&nbsp; Sounds like he was quite a character - according to an 1886 Australian article, Ellis Newton was an American, born in &quot;Boston (U.S.A.)&quot; in 1843, he left home at 15 to become a travelling minstrel, left that to become &quot; America&#039;s wondrous auctioneer&quot;, lived in England for eleven years, moved to Ireland, opening a large establishment in Belfast, and becoming a Master Mason, apparently leaving for Australia six months prior to the article being written, and in that short time managed to make both friends and enemies.&nbsp; Included in the article was this paragraph:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Mr. Newton guarantees his watches are</p><p>what he represents, either solid English ailver</p><p>or Virginia gold, which latter is a mixture of</p><p>certain metals, for the manufacture of which</p><p>he holds a registered certificate. With regard</p><p>to this matter, Mr. Newton figured some time</p><p>ago at the High Court of Chancery, in Lon-</p><p>don, in an action before Justice Chitty, in</p><p>which the Canadian Gold Company were the</p><p>plaintiff, and Mr. Newton—sole manufacturer</p><p>of the Virginia gold—defendant The action</p><p>was brought on in 1879, and the Canadian</p><p>Gold Company sued Mr. Newton for £4000</p><p>for refusing their gold, which Mr. Newton</p><p>found out was not &quot;good enough.&quot; Mr.</p><p>Newton took up with him 41 witnesses on</p><p>three occasions to London to prove that the</p><p>Canadian gold was not as was represented,</p><p>and after the case bad been spun out for three</p><p>years, Justice Chitty gave a decision against</p><p>the plaintiffs, and it cost the Canadian Gold</p><p>Company—which is formed of Jews—£3000.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Link to the article:&nbsp; <a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/84382721" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/84382721" rel="nofollow">https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/84382721</a></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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