International Silver Company

In parallel, print advertisements in LIFE and other magazines starting in 1937 featured product endorsements for ISC / 1847 Rogers Bros. silverware by several Hollywood movie actresses including Anne Baxter, Constance Bennett, Janet Blair, Virginia Bruce, Madeleine Carroll, Claudette Colbert, Joan Crawford, Linda Darnell, Olivia de Havilland, Laraine Day, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Joan Fontaine, Kay Francis, Judy Garland, Greer Garson, Paulette Goddard, Susan Howard, Veronica Lake, Carole Lombard, Myrna Loy, Mary Martin, Merle Oberon, Gail Patrick, Ginger Rogers, Shirley Ross, Rosalind Russell, Martha Scott, Ann Sheridan, Dinah Shore, Barbara Stanwyck, Risë Stevens, and Loretta Young.

These designers include Edward S. Buchko, Edward J. Conroy, Kurt Eric Christoffersen, Robert L. Doerfler, Lurelle Guild, Virginia Hamill, Lilian V. M. Helander, Garth Huxtable, Robert J.

King, Alfred G. Kintz, Alphonse La Paglia, Paul Lobel, Eliel Saarinen, Curtis Rittberg, Frederick W. Stark, Jean Theobald, and Stuart A.

was created to bring the dormant International Silver Company back from a group of licenses, hallmarks and other assets into a trading company with buying centers for scrap precious metals in Cookeville, Tennessee, Waco, Texas, and Las Vegas, Nevada, a refinery operation was opened in Scottsdale, Arizona and mining purchase operations in Tucson, Arizona and Lake Tahoe, California.

The firm also owned and operated a precious metals trading operation in Scottsdale, with a seat that took delivery of silver bullion and silver coin contracts off of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, The Mid America Commodity Exchange and COMEX in New York City.

The firm was also trading $1M to $5M per week in precious metals contracts, with delivery primarily in Chicago.