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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SBSVC, post: 471367, member: 136&quot;]Here are a couple of small ads from Boston Symphony Orchestra concert programs. The first is from the 1927-28 season, the one that starts &quot;Orrefors&quot; is from 1936-37:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]160176[/ATTACH]</p><p>The company obviously moved from 32 Newbury St to 115 Newbury Street sometime between those years, and perhaps changed the company name(?)</p><p><br /></p><p>Briggs is an old name in New England. (I don&#039;t know if they were <i>Mayflower</i> or just after, but they were in MA early on.) Note that the first store ad shown says <u>established 1798</u>. (I&#039;m sure more info is out there, both genealogical &amp; historical, with some digging into Boston history.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Briggs was also mentioned (I don&#039;t know if it was &quot;paid advertising&quot;) in the <i>Boston Blue Book. </i>This is the copy from the 1929 edition:</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">SINCE 1798 Boston has&nbsp; </font></p><p><font size="4">associated the name</font></p><p><font size="4">Richard Briggs with the</font></p><p><font size="4">finest of China and Glass.</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">For the convenience of&nbsp; </font></p><p><font size="4">our down town customers</font></p><p><font size="4">we have opened a branch</font></p><p><font size="4">store at 68 School Street</font></p><p><font size="4">(Parker House)</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">A beautiful collection of</font></p><p><font size="4">Service Plates</font></p><p><font size="4">Table Decorations in Glass</font></p><p><font size="4">Electric Lamps</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">RICHARD BRIGGS, Inc.</font></p><p><font size="4">32 Newbury St., Boston</font></p><p><br /></p><p>Again, I imagine some digging would turn up tons more info.</p><p><br /></p><p>ads/info shown from:</p><p><a href="http://worldcat.org/digitalarchive/content/server15982.contentdm.oclc.org/BSYMO/PROG/TRUSVolume4/Pub411_1927-1928_BSO_FriSat_Wk09.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://worldcat.org/digitalarchive/content/server15982.contentdm.oclc.org/BSYMO/PROG/TRUSVolume4/Pub411_1927-1928_BSO_FriSat_Wk09.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://worldcat.org/digitalarchive/content/server15982.contentdm.oclc.org/BSYMO/PROG/TRUSVolume4/Pub411_1927-1928_BSO_FriSat_Wk09.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://archive.org/stream/bostonbluebookco1929bost/bostonbluebookco1929bost_djvu.txt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/stream/bostonbluebookco1929bost/bostonbluebookco1929bost_djvu.txt" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/stream/bostonbluebookco1929bost/bostonbluebookco1929bost_djvu.txt</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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