The recent photo below is a restored building at 714 Madison St. in Covington, KY., one time home of the Fletcher/Goldsmith business circa 1875.

Some toy dolls from their business.


Their partnership ended in 1878 with each starting their own competing businesses just blocks apart. Goldsmith continued to make toy dolls, baseballs and other athletic goods and became highly successful. His business went through a few name changes and locations in Covington, but were known as P.Goldsmith & Co. by 1890. Philip’s sons, Oscar and Alfred became partners in the business in 1893 and a year later Philip met an untimely death by drowning . The sons carried on with the sporting goods side of the business and eliminated the toy doll manufacturing. Alfred soon sold his partnership interest to another brother, Edgar. Their youngest brother, Hugo became a partner in 1906. The business name was changed to P. Goldsmith's Sons Co. and they moved to a larger facility across the river in Cincinnati.
A period brochure showing the new Goldsmith building in Cincinnati.

Here is the actual building located at John & Findlay Sts. taken from Google Maps. Pretty cool! There is a company name on the brick in faded white paint.

Between the top and bottom windows one can just make out "Goldsmith". The name on the whole length of the building appears to be a very faded "P.Goldsmith's Sons Co." There is a faded logo above the "Goldsmith". Hard to make out. There is a better one on the other side of the building.

The logo is pretty clear on this side, an old "MacGregor"

Hugo turned out to be a manufacturing genius over the years with many patents to his credit. He stabilized a notoriously seasonal industry by carrying 700 different sports products for every season and sport He increased employee efficiency by establishing incentive programs. In the throes of the Great Depression, he bought out two struggling sporting goods companies, Draper Maynard and Crawford, McGregor & Canby Co. which became MacGregor Golf Co.
The old building on John & Findlay Sts. became too small with MacGregor's new products coming on board so another move was made to a massive building at 4861 Spring Grove Ave. The building is now the Cincy Self Storage and is up for sale.

Through all this his businesses thrived. The last of the original founders, Hugo Goldsmith died in 1952 leaving the company to a nephew. Lacking Hugo Goldsmith’s passion and leadership, the company was sold to Brunswick in 1958.
There are so many great Goldsmith gloves out there that it is hard to chose, so I just went for a variety of different cloth patches.






