Vintage Hickok Cufflinks, Rochester New York

A pair of cufflinks by Hickok of Rochester, New York, the firm that made the cufflinks, tie bars and collar pins that went out of American department stores through the middle of the century.

Stephen Rae Hickok opened a small jewellery shop in Rochester in 1909. Under his son Raymond the company grew into the largest belt maker in the world, and the Hickok Belt, the trophy named for the founder and given to the year's best professional athlete, was handed out in Rochester from 1950 to 1970. The family's run ended in the 1970s and the works left for Texas in 1972, so a Rochester-made pair is from the firm's own years.

One of one. Sold as found.

No returns - as is.