. 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-. pattern ware, and an exhibit was sentposition, where a gold medal wasawarded for the superior excellence of the goods. Some fifteen hundred differentarticles were mounted upon twelve Fr
. 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-. pattern ware, and an exhibit was sentposition, where a gold medal wasawarded for the superior excellence of the goods. Some fifteen hundred differentarticles were mounted upon twelve French walnut boards, seven feet by four, whichwere placed in a case forty-six feet long, surmounted by ebony and black walnutfronts and surrounded by a heavy bronze railing with an elaborately-ornamentalbronze post at one end. All the metal work was done by P. & F. Corbin, in-cluding a bronze metal mantel costing about seven hundred dollars. A less elaborate exhibit in Philadelphia, in 1856, won an award For Cabinetand House Trimming Goods. In November of 1876, the brick building erected by North & Stanley onthe site of the little ell-shaped structure first occupied by P. & F. Corbin on thepresent premises was purchased to provide needed room for some of thedepartments. In June of the following year, the pattern room was moved tothe new building, an event which the men therein employed though
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