Albert Pick & Co.

Chicago, IL c. 1895-1965 and Bridgeport, CT 1919-1927
Albert Pick began selling glassware and crockery in Chicago in 1857.  Albert Pick & Co. was formed c. 1895 and evolved into the largest supplier of goods for hotels, restaurants and railroads in the world.  They also became hotel operators to the extent that they grew to be the third largest hotel chain in the U.S.  They acquired the E.H.H. Smith Silver Co. of Bridgeport, CT, in 1919, and manufacturing operations continued there until 1927.  Consolidated with L. Barth & Sons, another restaurant supply firm, under the parent company Albert Pick, Barth Co.  Reorganized as the Albert Pick Co. in 1932 and went bankrupt in 1965.
See flatware patterns.