Rogers & Brother of Waterbury advertises a Columbia-pattern salad fork named for the exposition. This is a different firm from Meriden Britannia’s 1847 Rogers Bros. brand; it later joined International Silver.
Evidence, credit & reuse: Public domain in the United States: published in 1893. Not a photograph. Complete selected page. Selected image visually inspected; objects and principal reading text upright. No generated, colorized, or reconstructed content.
Source: Moses P. Handy, editor; W. B. Conkey Company, Chicago; The Official Directory of the World's Columbian Exposition, May 1st to October 30th, 1893; Library of Congress; Internet Archive
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Silent Grounds Collective, Meriden Silver, SGC-MS-008, MS-011, “Rogers & Brother: the Columbia pattern.” Source: Moses P. Handy, editor; W. B. Conkey Company, Chicago; The Official Directory of the World's Columbian Exposition, May 1st to October 30th, 1893; Library of Congress; Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/officialdirector00worl/page/n605/mode/1up. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.