Biography on herbert j hall jewelers pasadena

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According to "Thurston's Resident and Business Directory of Pasadena ": HALL, J. HERBERT, jeweler and optician, 43 E. Colorado, r.

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On Nov. 13, , Canada-born watchmaker and optometrist J. Herbert Hall founded a small optical and jewelry store at 43 E. Colorado St.

Canadian born optometrist J. Herbert Hall started a small optical and jewelry store in Pasadena, California in The store was located at.

J Herbert Hall Co. Jewelers & Silversmiths Calendar - Pasadena, CA NOS. You will receive the exact calendar seen in the photos.

A crowd at J. Herbert Hall Jewelers, located on Colorado. An immense diamond is (being) placed in the store window."

In the 1910 photo above (uncropped this time), a Pasadena police officerstands guard outside the J. Herbert Hall Company as a small crowd gathers.

Here's an excerpt from The Pasadena Star, Sept. 24, 1910:

Hundreds of people gazed with awe at a big pebble in the window of the J. Herbert Hall company all day today, the awe being due to the fact that the insignificant stone is a diamond 61¾ carats in weight, worth an unknown number of thousands of dollars.

All day a policeman in uniform stood beside the window to see that no one smashed the glass and made off with the costly pebble.

The big, smooth, uncut diamond rested on a mirrored placque surrounded by handsome unmounted but finished diamonds which in themselves would have made a considerable display...

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