Tinsel Trading Company. 828 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10065, USA
Some people like to keep things. Arch J. Bergoffen did. His thing was thread; shiny, bright, metal-covered thread, made in France, to be specific. It’s proper name, in the 1930s, was “tinsel.” His father was a tailor, and Arch or Mr. B, as he was known, also ended up in the trade; after working as an army mechanic during WWI, he went to work for The French Tinsel Company in Manhattan. He bought the company and its inventory in 1933, changed its name and began a life-long task of gathering.
