In the 1880s he made his fortune selling railroad cars for the Fox Pressed Steel Co. & got seriously into jewelry
[DOC] [TLE] Economic and Social History: Industry and Trade, 1880-1960 ... [PAR] Even the Birmingham Small Arms Company had to enter other trades, albeit ... 
the trade as a whole and by individual firms, such as C. G. Bonehill in the 1880s.