Dominick & Haff

American, active 1872–1928

ActiveNew York City, New York, United States

BiographyEvolved out of William Gale & Son, absorbed by Reed & Barton in 1928.

Henry Blanchard Dominick and Leroy B. Haff, the founding partners, were book keepers for the Gale retail department store from 1867 to closing in 1869. In 1880, Dominick & Haff purchased the flatware dies of Adams & Shaw, which included those of John R. Wendt & Co. and its successors.

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Dominick & Haff was established by H. Blanchard Dominick, a descendant of George Dominick, French Huguenot, who came to America in 1740, and Leroy B. Haff, who first entered the silversmithing business in 1867, joining the retail department of William Gale & Son, silversmiths established in New York in 1821. In their early days Dominick and Haff devoted themselves to the manufacture of relatively small pieces. They were renowned for the quality of their vinaigrettes, chatelaines, and other fancy articles. Following a disastrous fire in 1877, Dominick & Haff moved to a new factory and began to manufacture a wide array of articles in silver, small and large. The sequence of firm names upon Dominick’s entering the silver business is complex. Gale & North (1860) became Gale, North & Dominick (1868); then Gale, Dominick & Haff (1870); Dominick & Haff (1872); and Dominick & Haff, Inc. (1889). Finally, Dominick & Haff, Inc., was sold to Reed & Barton in 1928, and consolidated within that firm.

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