Kirk Steiff Sterling Silverware Company - A Brief History

Jon R Warren

Kirk Steiff Corp. began in Baltimore Maryland in 1815 as Kirk & Smith. For the next 100 years, generations of the Kirk family operated the firm. Founder Samuel Kirk introduced the Repousse pattern in 1828. The Stieff Co. of Baltimore acquired the Kirk Co. in 1979.

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