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...gold rings and bracelets-anything that can be sold for its precious metal value and melted down. Almost everywhere, people rush to barter away their gold and silver bullion. In London uniformed guards admit long lines of sellers one or two at a time into the precincts of Johnson Matthey & Co., metal dealers, while tough-looking street traders sidle up to impatient standees. "Are you sellin', luv?" coos one, whipping out brass scales and rolls of pound notes. On Manhattan's West 47th Street signs blossom in jewelers' windows: "We pay the highest. Don't settle...
...Johnson Matthey Bankers...
...Johnson, Matthey...
...There were people in Switzerland who thought one could never do away with the hands on a watch," admits Georges-Adrien Matthey, director general of Société Suisse pour l'Industrie Horlogère S.A. (S.S.I.H.), which makes Omega and Tissot watches. Result: of the more than 4 million digital watches produced in the world last year, fewer than 500,000 were made in Switzerland...
...firms: Samuel Montagu & Co., Fixley and Abell, Sharps & Wilkins, Johnson, Matthey & Co., Mocatta & Goldsmid, N. M. Rothschild & Sons...