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Bailey, Banks & Biddle Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)


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    • Bailey, Banks, and Biddle Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
    • Bailey, Banks & Biddle Company of Philadelphia

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      • found: Zieber, E. Heraldry in America, 1895:t.p. (Bailey, Banks & Biddle Company; Philadelphia)
      • found: OCLC data base, 9-27-89(usage: Bailey, Banks & Biddle; Bailey, Banks & Biddle Co.; Bailey, Banks & Biddle Company; Bailey, Banks & Biddle Company of Philadelphia; est. 1832 as Bailey & Kitchen)
      • found: LC in OCLC, 9-27-89(hdg: Bailey, Banks & Biddle Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.); usage: Bailey & Company)
      • found: Bailey, Banks & Biddle Company records, 1832-2003:(Bailey, Banks & Biddle; jewelers and silversmiths of Philadelphia; est. March 1, 1878 as a partnership by Joseph Trowbridge Bailey II, George W. Banks, and Samuel Biddle, succeeding the partnership of Bailey & Company; incorporated under the laws of Penna. as The Bailey, Banks and Biddle Company, March 8, 1894; the company sold all its assets to the Zale Jewelry Company on Oct. 1, 1961; Zale Jewelry Company became Zale Corporation in 1965; under Zale's ownership, additional Baily, Banks and Biddle stores were constructed, mostly in suburban Pennsylvania shopping malls, each incorporated as a separate company; "Bailey, Banks & Biddle Co.," or "Bailey, Banks and Biddle" continued as "fictitious names" or trade names for a group of stores operated as the Fine Jewelers Guild division of Zale's; in 1998, Zale's rebranded all its upscale jewelry stores across the country as "Bailey, Banks & Biddle Fine Jewelers"; the Zale Corporation sold all these stores to Finlay Enterprises, Inc. in November 2007; Finlay went into liquidation in 2009, ending the life of the Bailey, Banks & Biddle name)
      • found: Pennsylvania Division of Corporations, business name search, viewed via www, March 3, 2010:("The Bailey, Banks and Biddle Company" is the proper form of the name as per its articles of incorporation; see also, "Bailey, Banks & Biddle of King of Prussia, Inc.," etc.; "Bailey, Banks and Biddle" registered as a fictitious name, June 28, 1967; "Bailey, Banks & Biddle Co." registered as a fictitious name, Sept. 18, 1978, "Bailey, Banks & Biddle" registered as a fictitious name, Nov. 6, 1989)
      • notfound: History of silver, ancient and modern, 1871: t.p. (Bailey & Company)

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      • 1989-12-08: new
      • 2010-03-04: revised

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