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A stationery shop opens on Broadway; first day's take comes to $4.98

Tiffany & Young sells paper goods and trinkets out of a storefront financed by a cotton mill fortune.

On September 18, 1837, in the middle of a financial panic gripping the country, Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young opened a "stationery and fancy goods emporium" at 259 Broadway in Lower Manhattan, calling it Tiffany, Young and Ellis. On September 18, Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young opened a "stationery and fancy goods emporium" at 259 Broadway in Lower Manhattan, calling it Tiffany & Young. The store's entire first-day take was $4.98. It would be decades before the name meant diamonds…

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