VINTAGE BRADLEY & HUBBARD B&H BRASS PLATED IRON BEVELED WALL MIRROR FRAME 3598
Item History & Price
Very Heavy and Ornate. Bronze over Iron.From the Smithsonian:By the 1890's, the Bradley and Hubbard name was synonymouswith high quality and artistic merit. Their products were marketed not only intheir own showrooms in New York, Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia, but also bya force of salesmen traveling throughout the country and by the large retailfirms of Marshall Field & Company, Sears and Roebuck & Company, andMontgomery Ward & Company. The Bradley and Hubbard Manufactu...ring Companysurvived the Great Depression, but after 88 years in business, it was sold in1940 to the Charles Parker Company, also of Meriden. Famous for its Parker sporting shotgun, thecompany also made household items such as coffee mills, waffle irons, lamps, locks, and door knockers. Upon the acquisition of the Bradley and Hubbardfactories, the Parker Company instituted its Bradley and Hubbard Divisionwith the stated intent of carrying on production of some products of the formercompany such as bathroom accessories, lighting fixtures, architectural bronzesand brass work. Within a year and a half after the purchase, the United Statesentered into WWII and the Parker Company turned its attention to the wareffort. As the war escalated, all metal production was diverted to war relatedgoods, making it unlikely that much, if anything, from the Bradley and Hubbardline was produced, unless for military use. By 1950, all references to aBradley and Hubbard Division of the Parker Company had been dropped from thecompany's literature. Finally, in 1976, a spectacular blaze totally destroyedthe long abandoned Bradley and Hubbard factory buildings. Any records of theold Bradley and Hubbard Manufacturing Company that were still in the building atthe time were either burned or lost in the rubble when the shell was afterwardsdemolished.
