Bailey Banks & Biddle Company

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By the late 19th century, Bailey Banks & Biddle was firmly established as the pre-eminent American jeweler. The Pennsylvania Historical Review of 1886 describes our company as “one of two leading establishments of the kind in the United States. As manufacturing jewelers and diamond mounters, no house in the United States has achieved a higher reputation. Bailey Banks & Biddle’s inventory includes the rarest and choicest gems, watches, jewelry, the rarest first water brilliants, matched stones and diamonds from ½ to 20 carats. They also manufacture silverware and sell imported bronzes, the choicest Sevres, marble statuary, original and reproductions of famous masterpieces, paintings and curios. Finally, they also produce stationary, wedding invitations, ball programs, dinner menus, visiting cards, initials, crests and monograms.”

 

1904 was the year that Bailey Banks & Biddle created the updated and final version of the Great Seal of the United States. The Great Seal of the United States is used to officially seal over 2,000 documents a year. From treaties and ceremonial foreign communications, to the appointment of Ambassadors and Cabinet Members, the Seal is a living part of our Country’s identity. The Seal appears on every dollar bill and is above the doorway of every American Embassy around the world. The Seal is executed in stained glass in the prayer room of the Capitol building. It appears on Military Uniforms and Monuments. The Great Seal symbolizes the principles upon which our Country was founded.

 

More about their history can be found here: http://www.baileybanksandbiddle.com/index.html

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WW1 period EGA, for officers service dress collar.

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Jump Wings, from the collection of "bbmilitaria"

 

Another from the collection of "Tonomachi"

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A Naval Dress Cap Bedge from the collection of "Harrier9601" Note the beautiful applied rope!

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Here's a nice WW1 BB&B hallmark. Note the Sterling

mark on the propeller.

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Here is my set of BB&B Jump Wings: