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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 70261, member: 111&quot;]Sadly, Reed &amp; Barton, the last large American silver manufacturing hold-out, which remained under ownership of the Reed family from the 1830s, even fighting off a hostile takeover attempt in the early 20th century by Gorham&#039;s Edward Holbrook, gave it up earlier this year, filing for bankruptcy.&nbsp; Originally headed for Lifetime Sterling to join Gorham, Towle, International, Wallace, Kirk-Stieff, Tuttle, and Empire, they were instead acquired by Lenox - given their practices in the last couple of decades, have to wonder what will happen, not sure it&#039;s any better outcome than acquisition by Lifetime.&nbsp; Reed &amp; Barton had moved their production overseas (mostly Asia) several years ago, Lifetime claims their silver is produced in the U.S. - do know that Syratech (founded by Leonard Florence after he was ousted from Towle) moved production of Towle, International and Wallace to Puerto Rico, still maintaining that &#039;U.S. made&#039; distinction, perhaps Lifetime is still using the same facilities...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.wcvb.com/money/silver-city-no-more-tauntons-reed-barton-files-for-bankruptcy/31378072" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wcvb.com/money/silver-city-no-more-tauntons-reed-barton-files-for-bankruptcy/31378072" rel="nofollow">http://www.wcvb.com/money/silver-city-no-more-tauntons-reed-barton-files-for-bankruptcy/31378072</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.giftsanddec.com/article/519210-lenox-acquire-reed-barton" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.giftsanddec.com/article/519210-lenox-acquire-reed-barton" rel="nofollow">http://www.giftsanddec.com/article/519210-lenox-acquire-reed-barton</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Sue - Enjoy your memories of Old Newbury Crafters, they&#039;re still producing fine hand-crafted silver, but battle to survive - now owned by Peter Dooney of Dooney &amp; Bourke handbags, there seems be little interest in keeping the company going (their website went down almost a year ago).&nbsp; They did bring in a new silversmith not too long ago though, a young woman named Chloe Darke:&nbsp; <a href="http://chloedarke.com/news.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://chloedarke.com/news.html" rel="nofollow">http://chloedarke.com/news.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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