Token - Bixby's Royal Polish - Three Bee New York ND

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Three Bees logo in inverted horseshoe
Legend above

Script: Latin

Lettering:
BIXBY'S THREE BEE
TRADE
BBB
MARK

Translation: BBB= Bixby's Best Blacking

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https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:sq87ck94q

S M Bixby & Co. started in 1860 and was in business for over 60 years. They manufactured ink and glue items but their main product was shoe blacking and polish...
The particular articles by which S.M. Bixby & Co. have won their reputation are “Three Bee” Blacking and “Royal Polish” the former a paste blacking for men’s boots and the latter a liquid dressing, for restoring the color and gloss to ladies’ and children’s shoes. The building in which these goods are manufactured is an imposing six-story structure, supplied with machinery and appliances necessary for the business, and is the largest one in existence devoted exclusively to the manufacture of shoe-blacking. It is located at 194 and 196 Hester Street, adjacent to the busiest part of Broadway, and one block from Canal and Centre Streets. The salesroom and offices of the company occupy a portion of the second floor, while the shipping department and stockrooms are on the main floor. The remainder of the space in this immense building is divided into various departments, where the compounding and putting up of the blacking is done. In all departments the manufacture is an interesting one, and furnishes employment to upwards of 150 hands. It is not alone the excellence of their blackings and dressings and the convenient and perfect form of putting them up, that have given S.M. Bixby & Co. the leading position they occupy today in their especial line, but their persistent and novel methods of making the merits of the goods known, and a display of an unflinching determination to be always abreast of the times.
https://baybottles.com/2017/04/04/s-m-bixby/

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