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FYI, the unsourced addition reverted back on the International Silver Co. page seems in fundamental conflict with this New York Times article, listed as the second footnote: https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/14/business/insilco-declares-bankruptcy.html . ;-)
I politely question the positioning of possible decision-making under a "Connecticut portal". Why would it be there-- because the company made products in CT? With this logic, actress Katherine Hepburn, who lived in Fenwick / Old Saybrook, CT would be placed in the CT portal. Architect Philip Johnson who lived in New Canaan, CT would be placed in this portal. The facts are that the CT market did not support all three efforts at any significant level throughout their careers. Their sales, careers, and reputations were built not in CT, but nationally and internationally, through specialist and more powerful networks. For ISC, their biggest supporter today is the Dallas Museum of Art, in Texas, not CT. ISC's main showroom and international marketing efforts were out of New York. The ISC Silver Theater was based in Hollywood and featured numerous stars. If under decision-makers, I feel, the theater should be under a Hollywood portal of some kind, not CT, and ISC under 'silver' in some way as ISC is clearly a hugely important entity in silver history. CT was the site of the making and a small fraction of the international buying. Is Michelangelo straight-jacketed into the Rome portal, or the wider Italian work and international impact is considered? Mrdnartdesign 12 May 2019
According to Connecticut Explored (a standalone publication that's separate from the state historical society), the company's hollowware division was shut down in a dramatic closing in March 1981. And sadly that its original design drawings not sold to another company were shredded. Article discusses the difficulties of the silver business after the 1970s and the new CEO's siphoning profits to fund a conglomerate.
https://www.ctexplored.org/international-silver-company-shines-once-more/
I just ran across this doing other research and thought it looks like a good source. At least could be cited in the closing date of the company. Apologies that I am not a proficient Wikipedia editor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Madeine ( talk • contribs) 22:31, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
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16:40, 26 June 2022 (UTC)I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of International Silver Company's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
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I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 08:19, 8 September 2022 (UTC)