Description

Specialties

• Jewelry until 1906
• Dealt exclusively with fine Jewels.

Founder

• Hugh W. Beattie
• Canadian Jewelry & Watchmaker.

1884

• Moved to Cleveland.

1890

• Purchased Baxter & Craig and moved downtown.

1906

• Having eliminated jewelry stock, became exclusively gemstone dealers.

1916

• Son Milton’s window displays, creating pictures using only tiny gems, won world acclaim until his death in 1998.

1917

• Brother George opened a jewelry firm.

1926

• H.W. Beattie’s firm Firm incorporated with 3 sons.

1959

• Death of George Beattie.
• Beattie & Sons acquired his business and added it to their own.