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The history of the New York City jewelry company Harry S Bick & Son dates back to 1923, when it was called Kramer & Bick. Its founders were Samuel Kramer (1864 – 1949) and his son-in-law Harry Stark Bick (1890 – 1975).

Samuel Kramer’s daughter, Hattie B Kramer, married Harry Bick in 1913. They had a daughter, Bertha, in 1916, and a son, Harry S Bick Jr., in 1918.
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The Lance Corporation which owned Hudson Pewter jewelry trademark was incorporated in August 1964 in Hudson, Massachusetts. The founder and president of the Lance Corporation was a native of Massachusetts, Everett Raymond Kennedy (1928 – 2014), also known as Ray Kennedy.

In fact, Hudson Pewter was the first of several trademarks registered by the Lance Corporation. Other jewelry trademarks founded by the Lance Corporation included Offcanvas (1991-1998), Frolicking Friends (1985 – 1992), TLC (1981 – 2002), Hudson (1980 – 2001), and Hudson Pewter (1975 – 2000).
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Before founding his jewelry company Ultracraft in 1970, Luigi B. Guadango (1936 – 2002) already had more than a decade of experience in the jewelry business as a model maker. Initially, Ultracraft was a small factory producing costume jewelry and gift items, employing about 20 people.

By 1972, Ultracraft Co Inc., 13 Industrial Lane Johnston, Rhode Island, had become a multi-million dollar corporation. The company’s president, Luigi Guadango, was an Italian who had graduated from the University of Naples and who became perhaps the youngest mayor of his hometown, Alife, in the province of Caserta.
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When twenty-year-old Kyoto native Shintaro Amita (1912 – 1990) opened his firm, could he have imagined that his family name would become a world-famous jewelry brand? Recognizable all over the world and today highly collectible, Amita Damascene Co made jewelry with traditional Japanese motifs in the Damascene technique.

As the name suggests, Damascus techniques originated from Damascus. However, Japanese craftsmen have been producing items in this technique for centuries. Notably, Kyoto became the center of production of items in the Damascus ceramic style.
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