The heirs of the Oneida Community made beautiful, high-quality silver. They also promoted it in a competitive market using a innovative techniques. This booklet has been adapted from a chapter of The Community Table (now out of print), to which I have added more images, many in color.
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Didn’t you already post this one a week ago? I remember starting to skim it and getting totally hooked. Fascinating story.
Similar but not the same. The previous post was about the History of the Oneida Community — utopian communistic religious perfectionists with complex marriage — who got into the silver business.
The Marketing booklet is about how they promoted the silver business after the Community broke up.
This is rather specialized history but of interest to silver collectors and those who study industrial history. I used to deal in silver, then got into research and publications and found there is no end to it.