By Robbie Thompson Today’s steel market can be difficult to navigate. However, I cannot imagine what it must have been like in 1918. I was digging thru some old Conklin paperwork, and came across this tattered document that had gotten stuck to an old stock certificate from 1919. It was a “Special Notice” explaining that […]
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The tinware manufacturing portion of the business was sold to the American Can Company. The business continued out of the same warehouse under the new name of Conklin Tin Plate and Metal Company. Having sold the largest segment of the company, he closed the retail department on Whitehall Street and the focus shifted to that
1902 Conklin Tin Plate & Metal Co. Read More »
Having sold the largest segment of the company, the focus shifts to that of the wholesale trade of “Tin Plate, Metals, Solder, Sheet Copper, Sheet Iron, Conductor Pipe, Tinmen’s Machines and Tools”.
