Silversmiths

Silversmiths - Park to Paye

Frank Patania, Sr. / Thunderbird Shop
Santa Fe, NM and Tucson, AZ 1927-1964 Highly acclaimed Italian born
silversmith who, with his brother Carmelo Patania, opened the Thunderbird
Shop in Santa Fe, NM in 1927. The Tucson, AZ store was added in 1937. Well known for
Native American style jewelry, Frank Patania also made boxes and small items along with
some flatware.

Greg Pauline / Hiram West Co.
Cedar Ridge, CA 1985-Present Maker of western belt buckles and small items. Website

The Paye & Baker Manufacturing Co.
North Attleboro, MA 1901-c. 1960 Charles Paye and Frank Baker.
Successors to Simmons & Paye. Makers of a small line of sterling flatware,
holloware, novelty items and souvenir spoons. Flatware production ceased c. 1920.
See flatware patterns.

Alexander Paxton
Pittsburgh, PA, Steubenville, OH, and Wheeling, WV 1811-c.1838

G.W. Parks Company
Providence, RI 1909-1915 Successor to the Hayden Mfg. Co. Their maker's mark
for sterling items is an anchor. The anchor with the Hope Silver Co. marking as
shown to the right is the trade name for their line of silverplate items.

Parry & Musgrave
Philadelphia, PA 1793-1796 Rowland Parry and James Musgrave.

Samuel Patania
Tucson, AZ 1979-Present Grandson of Frank Patania, Sr., he renamed the Thunderbird Shop in
1996 to Patania's Sterling Silver Originals. Primarily makes jewelry.

Samuel Parmelee (Parmele)
Guilford, CT c. 1756-c. 1770 Reached the rank of captain while serving in the Revolutionary War.

Philip Paval
Los Angeles, CA c. 1925-1971 Handwrought jewelry, holloware, and miscellaneous items
done in the modernist style.

Carmelo "Pat" Patania
Santa Fe, NM and Tucson, AZ 1927-1979 Trained by his brother Frank Patania, Sr., together
the two opened the Thunderbird Shop. Carmelo left to open the Kachina Shop in 1959 which he
operated until his retirement in 1979.

Frank Patania, Jr.
Santa Fe, NM 1956-Present Trained by Frank Patania, Sr., he went to work with him in
the Thunderbird Shop and continued to operate the shop after his father's death in 1964.
Opened the Frank Patania Store in Santa Fe, NM. Maker of a wide array of silver items,
including jewelry, flatware, boxes, and ecclesiastic items.

Caleb Parker, Jr.
Boston, MA c. 1770

Parks Bros. & Rogers
Providence, RI 1892-1930 A jewelry manufacturer, best known for their cufflinks; also made
small sterling novelty items.

Park Sherman
Springfield, IL 1932-1960 Founded by Jacob Sherman as a torch and carbide
miner's lamp manufacturer. Makers of smoking and desk accessories and a wide
array of articles in a variety of metals, including sterling and gold. Acquired by
Ketcham & McDougall in 1960, the company was moved to Murfreesboro, TN and the name was changed to
Park Industries.