Charles Lewis Tiffany (b. February 15, 1812, d. February 18, 1902) founded Tiffany & Co. in New York City in 1837. His son, Louis Comfort Tiffany, was a famous decorative glass and lamp designer. Tiffany created the country's first retail catalog, and was known for his jewelry expertise. In 1851, he introduced the English standard of sterling silver. February 15 is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1812 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... February 18 is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Tiffany & Co. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York and abbreviated NYC) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, communications, music, fashion, and culture. ... 1837 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Louis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 - January 17, 1933) was an American artist most famous for his Art Nouveau pieces in stained glass. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The materials definition of a glass is a uniform amorphous solid material, usually produced when a suitably viscous molten material cools very rapidly, thereby not giving enough time for a regular crystal lattice to form. ... The acronym LAMP refers to a set of free software programs commonly used together to run dynamic Web sites or servers: Linux, the operating system; Apache, the Web server; MySQL, the database management system (or database server); Perl, PHP, and/or Python, scripting languages. ... Designer is a broad term for a person who designs any of a variety of things. ... In commerce, a retailer buys goods or products in large quantities from manufacturers or importers, either directly or through a wholesaler, and then sells individual items or small quantities to the general public or end user customers, usually in a shop, also called store. ... There are various forms of catalog or catalogue, each organized registers of some set of objects. ... Jewelry (spelled jewellery in British English) consists of ornamental devices worn by persons, typically made with gems and precious metals. ... Sterling silver is at least 92. ...

Tiffany was terribly embarassed in an 1872 diamond and gemstone hoax perpetrated by Philip Arnold, that cost investors more than half a million dollars. Philip Arnold (1829 - 1878) was a con man from Elizabethtown, Kentucky, who was the brains behind a legendary 1872 scam to fool people into investing in western diamond mining operations. ...

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