. being expensive to produce, and theiruse was limited to the houses of very wealthy people. One residence in Taun-ton had a number of rooms fitted with this class of hardware,the enamel being tinted to correspond with the color schemeof each room. The cost for the enameled hardwareused in this house was over three thousand dollars, a veryunusual expenditure in those days, when special designsand finishes were comparatively unknown. Theenameled knobs used on this job were billed and $ per pair—and other items inproportion
. being expensive to produce, and theiruse was limited to the houses of very wealthy people. One residence in Taun-ton had a number of rooms fitted with this class of hardware,the enamel being tinted to correspond with the color schemeof each room. The cost for the enameled hardwareused in this house was over three thousand dollars, a veryunusual expenditure in those days, when special designsand finishes were comparatively unknown. Theenameled knobs used on this job were billed and $ per pair—and other items inproportion. The front door trim alone The finish on enameled hardware was prac-tically everlasting, and such of these goods ashave been in use since the time they were madepresent the same appearance to-day as when firstapplied. In 1873, ^h^ company sustained a loss inthe death of Waldo Corbin, then a director, andhaving in his especial charge .the manufactureof wrought butts. His death occurred on Feb-ruary 9th, two days before the date set for the 58. CHASER AT WORK HISTORY O F THE HOUSE O F P . & F . C O R B I N annual meeting, and inrespect to his memorythe meeting was deferredfor one week. Mr. Waldo Corbinsdeath having made itnecessary to-choose anew director, An-drew Corbinwas elected atthis meeting. Ini876,itwas thoughtadvisable tomake a pub-lic display ofbuilders hard-to the Centennial Ex-
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