ANTIQUE SIMMONS Hand Cut ROCK CRYSTAL QUARTZ 14kt GOLD Spacers NECKLACE c 1910

SIMMOS Hand Cut ROCK CRYSTAL QUARTZ NECKLACE. Graduated Hand Cut Beads strung on 14kt GF Chain. Simmons Company of Attleboro was founded in 1873 by Robert Fitz Simmons, a chaser who conducted a small shop.

Simmons struck up a friendship with Joseph Lyman Sweet who used to drive grain from the Sweet Farm in West Mansfield to Attleboro's town sales near Simmons' shop. In 1875 Sweet, Simmons, and Edgar L.

In 1887 the organization had grown from 8-10 employees to more than 200, with offices in New York and agents in Rio de Janiero, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Berlin, Barcelona and Sydney. Simmons' best known product was its watch chains, but other items were soon added to its line including chatelaine pins, eyeglass chains, fobs, bracelets and walking stick handles. Simmons Company was active until 1952.