1903 JENNINGS BROTHERS MANUFACTURING CO, BRIDGEPORT The Jennings Brothers Manufacturing Company, located at Bridgeport, Conn. The USA is one of the leading and most enterprising manufacturing concerns in Connecticut; it began business in the year 1890, occupying, to start with, less space for its entire business than it now utilizes for office rooms alone. The hard work, aggressive and sagacious management, combined with liberality and fidelity in dealing with customers, has won for The Jennings Brothers Manufacturing Company a clientage and reputation equaled by few and excelled by none.
Its business is the manufacture of clocks in metal cases, candelabra, art metal, and silver-plated flatware. Among the numerous finishes applied to its many designs and a large variety of goods is its Ormolu gold plate, manufactured exclusively by this company and marketed under the trademark J.” This finish is the most beautiful and durable of any similar gold finish, the result of years of investigation and experimentation. It is now acknowledged to be the best produced here or abroad.
Bronze finishes are also produced and are most popular when applied to art goods: their many dainty colorings are perfect and bring out the artistic features and details of the designs to which they are most appropriately applied. These goods are in competition with imported goods of French manufacture, and are sold under the name of “Nouveau Bronze” or “Art Nouveau,” which is at present so much in vogue. French grey silver and old brass finishes are also applied to novelties in candelabra, inks, trays, etc., making most pleasing objects of art and utility. Silver-plated flatware is sold under the company’s exclusive trademark, “1890 Jennings Bros.” In each package, a certificate of guarantee is furnished that the goods are as represented, or the purchase money refunded. Such a guarantee gives some indication of the company’s integrity in its dealings with customers. On such products as are not sold under one of the regular trade marks, the intrademarks B appear on the article to identify the company’s product.