Meriden Britannia Company
SGC nonprofit educational research archive
Edition: September 12, 2026

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A growing selection of primary photographs, engravings, advertisements and acquired historical OCR. Meriden Britannia, Meriden Silver Plate and International Silver are distinguished throughout. Publication dates are separated from depicted dates. Original corporate filings and complete employment records remain to be recovered.

Includes selected original images, full acquired OCR, source catalog, credits and a SQLite FTS5 database. Complete repository PDFs and modern external articles are linked, not included. Coverage and missing records are described in each collection’s scope and individual item notes.

RESEARCH DATABASE
items stores the catalog; search_fts indexes source text. Example: SELECT id,title FROM search_fts WHERE search_fts MATCH 'history';

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