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Luther. William D. Denton of Wellesley exhibited " butterfly jewelry"
in which the wings of the butterflies are protected by rock crystals
set in gold mounting. Florence A. Richmond and Jessie Lane Burbank from
the workshop in Park Square exhibited pieces deserving honourable
mention.
The
officers of this society are: President, H. Langford Warren;
Vice-Presidents, A. W. Longfellow, J. Samuel Hodge, and C. Howard
Walker; the Secretary and Treasurer is Mr. Frederic Allen Whiting of
No. 9 Park Street, Boston.
In
Providence, R. I., a centre of the great jewelry manufacturing
interests of New England, there are various opportunities for the
aspirant for technical proficiency in the designing and making of
jewelry; there is a jewelry class in the Young Men's Christian
Association, a course in the regular curriculum of the public Manual
Training or Technical High School, and an important department of the
Rhode Island School of Design is that devoted to jewelry designing,
silversmithing, and shop work. For many years the New England
Manufacturing Jewellers and Silversmiths' Association has annually
offered a sum of money, to be divided into several
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