. ANDREW CORBIN,FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT HISTORY OF THE HOUSE OF P. & F. CORBIN No. 516 line), were also used in those days for coffin handles, and P. & F. Corbinsold them for that purpose. They soon added other patterns and the assort-ment grew rapidly, particularly after 1857, at which time Stephen J. Arnoldwas engaged as a designer of these goods. He had previously in a similarcapacity worked for Bailey & Brainard of Middle Haddam, manufacturers ofcoffin trimmings, and the old Corbin catalogues show many elaborately dec-orative patter
. ANDREW CORBIN,FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT HISTORY OF THE HOUSE OF P. & F. CORBIN No. 516 line), were also used in those days for coffin handles, and P. & F. Corbinsold them for that purpose. They soon added other patterns and the assort-ment grew rapidly, particularly after 1857, at which time Stephen J. Arnoldwas engaged as a designer of these goods. He had previously in a similarcapacity worked for Bailey & Brainard of Middle Haddam, manufacturers ofcoffin trimmings, and the old Corbin catalogues show many elaborately dec-orative patterns of handles which he designed. These were at one time one ofthe principal articles of manufacture, but as the business became specialized andwas taken up by concerns confining their efforts to this single line, the salesdwindled, and in 1871 the goods were taken off the list of merchantablearticles, the old original lifting handles alone remaining. In the front of the 1856 catalogue appears a notice, reading: TERMS. Your Note of Six Months. N.
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