Holiday ad Dec. 1929
Full page, December 8th 1929
StieffBaltimore Sun Sunday Holiday ad
From my personal collection
Remember that is this is just FIVE weeks after the stock market crash, and many people had lost everything.
Scanned in 4 parts and reassembled below.
This ad is slightly disjointed from my cobbling of it from the four scanned sections.
Mid page is the sentence
“No patterns ever made by The Stieff Company has ever been discontinued or ever will be”
I am wondering then where the photos of Chrysanthemum, Victoria or Plain & Engraved?
Of course, up into the 1970’s Stieff would recreate any pattern from the past.
Segmented below for easier reading
Of particular interest here is the top left picture. Shown is a Numsen Pitcher No. 0850 In catalogs this would be listed under Plain Colonial designs.
The Stieff Company’s President was Gideon Numsen Stieff
A while back I was asked about some bread plates, marked Numsen Sterling and had the same date mark that Stieff used for 1928. I know nothing about Numsen silver, and at this point, neither do the Stieff’s. A new vein to research??
