Jewelry vanity bakelite box, Antique Art high quality Deco Black Bakelite & Sterling Silver Monogrammed Vanity Jewelry Box Towle Silversmiths

Lovely Art Deco era vanity box. Made by Towle Silversmiths high quality. Box is crafted from black Bakelite and lid has an inset rectangular shaped monogrammed sterling plaque. Feet are also Bakelite and there is a sterling Towle maker's medallion on the underside of the lid. Measures 4” x 3.5” x 1.5” tall

Towle Silversmiths is an American silver manufacturer. Towle Silversmiths was originally founded in 1857 as Towle & Jones by Anthony Francis Towle and William P. Jones, two apprentices to the Moulton family of silversmiths. In 1873 it became A.F. Towle & Son, and then in 1882, Anthony Francis Towle, while still owning A.F. Towle & Son, established the Towle Manufacturing Co. In 1890, the company adopted the trademark of a large script "T" enclosing a lion. Richard Dimes, an English silversmith who had immigrated to the U.S. in 1881, started Towle's hollowware line. Dimes, who also worked for the Frank W. Smith Silver Co., would eventually establish his own company, Richard Dimes Co., in Boston. Eventually the company's name was changed to Towle Silversmiths.