International Silver Company
| Founded | 1898 |
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| Headquarters | Meriden, Connecticut, United States |
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Area served
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Internationally |
| Products | silver products, hollowware and flatware |
The International Silver Company (1898-1983, stopped making silver) was formed in Meriden, Connecticut as a corporation banding together many existing silver companies in the immediate area and beyond. In Meriden, and nearby Wallingford and Middletown, these companies included Meriden Britannia Company, Meriden Silver Plate Co., Middletown Plate Company, C. Rogers & Brothers, Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co., Simpson Nickel Company, Watrous Manufacturing Company, and the Wilcox Silver Plate Co. In Hartford, the following silver companies also became part of the corporation: Barbour Silver Company, Rogers Cutlery and William Rogers Manufacturing Company. Other companies that became part of the corporation also include Holmes & Edwards Silver Company in Bridgeport, CT, Derby Silver Company in Derby, CT, Norwich Cutlery in Norwich, CT, Rogers and Brothers and Rogers and Hamilton in Waterbury, CT, Manhattan Silver Plate in Lyons, New York and Standard Silver Company, Ltd. in Toronto, Canada. Into the 20th century, many silver designs carry either the International Silver Company brand, or the pre-existing brand continues, or both are listed as the design maker.
International Silver Company products have been exhibited in numerous museum exhibitions in the United States and beyond. For example, ISC was represented at several Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibitions during the later 1920s and 1930s including "The architect and the industrial arts: An exhibition of contemporary American design" (1929). ISC is particularly known in the museum world for its high-quality Modernist designs from 1928 into the 1960s, which were exhibited at the Dallas Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, and the Wolfsonian in Miami Beach, Florida in 2005-07. This exhibition highlighted many ISC design achievements, including its installation called the "Moon Room" exhibited in the Pavilion of American Interiors at the 1964 New York World's Fair exhibited in 1964-65.
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