Code words condensed detailed orders: the catalog explains how a short telegram could specify multiple patterns and finishes.
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Source: Meriden Silver Plate Co.; printed by The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford; Illustrated catalogue and price list of staple goods, superior electro-silver plated ware manufactured by The Meriden Silver Plate Co.; Toronto Public Library, Toronto Reference Library; Internet Archive
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: TELEGRAPHIC CODE. In this Catalogue will be found with each price a word in brackets, to be used in © should be taken to use each code word correctly. EXAMPLE: Express PHANTOM, BETWEEN, EMPTY, DARK, HINT, LINEN, _—- MAGNIFY, WOULD READ LITERALLY, Express one each, Fourteen Hundred Twenty-Three Tea Set, Chased, “A” Gilt; Number Ought Eighty-Nine, . Waiter; Four Hundred Fifty-Six Chased Tilting Set; Three Thousand and Two Caster, Chased, Number One Hundred 1 Seven Nineteen Berry; Ten Seventy-Nine Card, Gold Lined ; Eleven Hundred Ninety-Nine Jewel, Fancy Gilt; Seven Silver; Twenty-Four Thirty Wine Bottle-Holder, Hammered.
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Silent Grounds Collective, Meriden Silver, SGC-MS-008, MS-006, “Ordering silverware by telegraph.” Source: Meriden Silver Plate Co.; printed by The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford; Illustrated catalogue and price list of staple goods, superior electro-silver plated ware manufactured by The Meriden Silver Plate Co.; Toronto Public Library, Toronto Reference Library; Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/illustradedcata00meriuoft/page/n7/mode/1up. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.