The 1910 Stieff catalog
This 1910 catalog has been provided by
Imperial Half Bushel no longer has a retail store. Visit them on-line.
Patrick Duggan from www.imperialhalfbushel.com provided this catalog
so that others may enjoy it too. Thank you Patrick.
.I am also looking for PRICE LISTS that would have accompanied the catalog. If anyone has any of them, please advise. I would like to share those too.
The 1910 Stieff Catalog, Pages 1-10
The catalog that I have scanned here is a copy of an original. The size appears to be 7.25 x 11 inches. I have tinted the cover of the copy to match the blue that Stieff used in 1913 on the “Art of Silversmithing” booklet and the late 1920’s large catalog.
Note: The front cover and inside cover, which would be blank are considered pages 1 & 2
This catalog has been reproduced in the past by The University Press.
Note that at this time , the 17 McLane address is in use. After the great
fire of 1904, the Liberty Street name was changed to
McLane Place. In 1914 the name reverted to Liberty Street again.
While not noted, the factory at this point would still have been in Cider Alley
Moving a few blocks away to German Street by 1913.
In the picture of the Maryland (ROSE) Pattern below, notice the different
placement of the rose. It would appear that the photograph of the spoon is reversed. (oops!) Below on page 9, notice the pattern differences in the different pieces of flatware shown. Even at this early date, Stieff already had subtle differences in the pattern, all depending on the die used.
I would like to point out that on this list and others in the catalog the Dinner Knife is not listed. The dinner knife is referenced later on page 11, and that is the only place in the catalog a dinner knife is mentioned, and that is in cased goods. The Medium knife seems to be the default knife at the time.
Above...Look at the #9 FORK in the lower left corner, that is what a Salad Fork looked like in 1910. Today we would call it a “Spork”. The #8 fork is different in that there is a five petal flower above the rose in the middle of the leaf area along the top edge. Note the lack of #1, which should be the knife.
Proceed to
1910 Stieff Catalog Pages 1-10 Intro & Flatware
Pages 11-20, 1910 Catalog Flatware & Cased Goods
Pages 21-30, 1910 Catalog Flatware & Coffee Services
Pages 31-40, 1910 Catalog Hollow Wares
Pages 41-50, 1910 Catalog Hollow Wares
Pages 51-60, 1910 Catalog Umbrellas to Table Access.
Pages 61-64, 1910 Catalog Personal Silver
This 1910 catalog has been provided as a courtesy of
I also have the complete 1920, 1927, 1930, 1937, 1939, 1952 & 1957 catalogs which are on this site, as well as other catalogs of importance.
The 1937 & 1939 catalogs provide the measurements of the pieces.
Be sure to take a look at the Late 1920’s Catalog on this site too. 81 pages of High Victorian pieces to the new styles of the later 1920’s.
If you have ANY other old STIEFF catalogs or parts of catalogs.. PLEASE send them to me so that I can document them for others to enjoy. Credit will of course be attributed.
I encourage you to visit www.imperialhalfbushel.com Their retail store
in Baltimore MD is CLOSED. I thank them for adding to the education of the
world by posting historical sterling silver materials on the website.
