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HAVemeyer-4-9436, Charles Hoelzer Iron Works

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If you look at enough metal doors on New York City sidewalks you will eventually see one of these old medallions from the Charles Hoelzer Iron Works company. I think I've seen about a dozen of these HAVemeyer exchange names around town. This is the only sighting I can recall which uses a 3-letter shorthand for the telephone exchange name. UPDATE, August 2014: Dave Cook, from EatingInTranslation.com, shares his photo of a VIRginia exchange name sighting in Richmond Hill, Queens.

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