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Originally Posted by Bicem
Has anyone done a deep research dive on the connection of Vignos & Hurford Photography and the production of the NC postcards?
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Novelty Cutlery was founded in 1879 by Augusts Vignos. Lost right arm in Civil War. Farmer, Janitor, Postmaster of Canton. Novelty became famous for "transplant-handled" knives which were invented by Henry and Reuben Landis also of Canton.
Cutlery was at 67 Barr Street in 1910, later moving to 515 McGregor Avenue in 1928. Vignos died in 1925 and the firm passed to son Alfred. Stopped making knives in 1948.
Interesting that Vignos was a photographer prior to the Cutlery business and had an photography studio adjacent to his Novelty Cutlery plant. See attached postcard, lower left (no longer my postcard).