The Krementz staff meets with buyers in the New York showroom on Fifth Avenue, circa 1900.
Two pins from two eras. The 14 karat gold, Art Nouveau-inspired cherub with a freshwater pearl and platinum Art Deco pin with sapphires and diamonds are now part of the permanent collection of the Newark Museum in NJ.
Richard Krementz, George's son, becomes first in his family to graduate college. After graduating with a degree in engineering from Yale, he begins working at Krementz & Co. quality.
Krementz begins to advertise nationally. No other name is better known to consumers for the finest quality. Quality and Krementz are synonymous.
1900s
Krementz & Co move their showroom from downtown Manhattan to 580 Fifth Avenue. Almost all of the collar buttons used in the world at the turn of the century
are
made by Krementz & Co.
1912
Family lore speculates that a
substantial collection of Krementz
men's dress sets, popular among New
York society, sink in the North Atlantic
on board Titanic.
