Thread: D.C Halsted 9/8 FBU

In researching H King I found an interesting tidbit. Messers King and Halsted were almost certainly acquainted as Hezekiah King began his business life in 1840 with JD Wolfe, Bishop, and Co .
Located at 87 Maiden Lane!

Originally Posted by WW243

Neil,
... We soldier on through the humiliation of inhabiting a rotting pillar of flesh knowing that we were once the Colossus of Rhodes!

I find "The Dandy of the Dardenelles" rather apt.

Regards,
Neil

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

I find "The Dandy of the Dardenelles" rather apt.

Regards,
Neil

Figures you'd go all Oxford/Cambridge on me......

What an amazing blade you've got there.
Cant give any background, but here's my widdle 6/8" It suffers from width envy for sure.

Here, I hope, is the link to the book from which Neil snipped his image, the Scoville book.....kind of fascinating reading if you look in the index for Boisseau...then turn the pages. I think the tale for our purposes begins on page 44:
https://archive.org/details/oldmerchantsofne04scovuoft
Many thanks to the OP and Tom & Neil, this has been really fun!

Thank you all for researching this puzzle. Most unexpected to find D.C. Halsted was a New York merchant.

Originally Posted by WW243

Here, I hope, is the link to the book from which Neil snipped his image, the Scoville book.....kind of fascinating reading if you look in the index for Boisseau...then turn the pages. I think the tale for our purposes begins on page 44:
https://archive.org/details/oldmerchantsofne04scovuoft
Many thanks to the OP and Tom & Neil, this has been really fun!

Thanks for the link, Bill! Old Boisseau was quite the man. Hard to stop reading it there!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Thanks for the link, Bill! Old Boisseau was quite the man. Hard to stop reading it there!

Agreed Tom...really pulled you into a familiar yet bizarre world of the not to distant past.