Gerlach (of Schmidt & Company)
hammer coverer
Biography
Gerlach (given name not stated) is named as one of the two practical members, together with Mr. Schmidt, of Schmidt & Company, a New York firm specializing in hammer covering that Spillane calls the oldest such business in the metropolitan trade at the time of writing, with a record going back to 1856. No further personal biographical detail is given.
Highlights
- Co-principal of Schmidt & Company, New York, the oldest hammer-covering specialists, with a record dating to 1856
Source
Daniel Spillane, History of the American Pianoforte (1890), p. 328.
Public domain.