Sales Records
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Nickse, Hugo
label: Collection Donor
content: Johnson, Hanford
label: Collection Creator
content: Comstock, Cheney and Co.
label: Collection Creator
content: Pratt, Read and Company
label: Collection Donor
content: Steinway, Henry Ziegler
setName: label: See more items in
content: Pratt, Read Corporation Records
label: See more items in
content: Pratt, Read Corporation Records / Series 2: Comstock, Cheney and Company
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0320, Subseries 2.6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The SALES RECORDS, 1875-1936, in this collection include sales orders, sales account statements, labels from the company's boxes of ivory combs, and a few price lists and trade cards.  Complete sales orders for the year 1876 are arranged in chronological order.  They provide information on the types of ivory goods that Comstock, Cheney produced and the quantity and grades in which they were available.  These orders complement the general correspondence since orders from the same piano and organ manufacturing firms are included.  Additional customers of interest include Sohmer & Company, piano makers, and Brunswick Brothers, Decker & Company, and George E. Phelan, billiard ball manufacturers.

The sales account statements are interesting because they provide information on the way in which many of the company's smaller ivory goods were marketed.  Comstock, Cheney sold its combs, tablets, toothpicks, and folders on a consignment basis through several companies in New York City.  These monthly statements, 1875 1876, show the type and number of goods sold and their prices.  The price lists include two for stationer's ivory goods, one for billiard balls, and one for repairs and repair materials for piano keys, actions, and hammers.