A friend who lives in Kennett recently had a plumber out to look at his leaky toilet. He really, really hopes it can be fixed because it's not just any toilet: it was manufactured by H. Schmaltz & Co.of Kennett Square and bears the maker's name prominently emblazoned on the rim, back near the tank. (Yes, Mum, I knew you'd want to know, so I asked him exactly where it was on the toilet.)
According to Joe Jordi's Kennett Square postcard history book, H. Schmaltz and Company was a hardware, tinsmith and plumbing business that opened its doors around 1904 at 101 East State Street. The Schmaltz family lived in a splendid Victorian building at 120 Marshall Street, now the borough hall.
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