• Around 1877 Selzer opened his show rooms at 18 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio.

• At sometime the showrooms were moved to the Hickox Building and later to the Bulkley Building (also located on Euclid Avenue.  

• Eventually the Selzer business was taken over by the George Bowman Company who continued to import pottery ware from England. 

C. A. Selzer, Fine Gas Fixtures, Artistic Potteries, Bronzes, and Bric-a-brac, etc, No.18 Euclid Avenue.

"This elegant repository of art, the finest of its special character in Cleveland, was founded in 1877 by C. A. Selzer. 

The magnificent stock carried embraces a wide list of valuable productions, comprehending artistic goods in some of their most exquisite forms, and presenting the greatest diversity in design and execution. The display of potteries, glass, china, modern, and antique ware, brasses and bronzes, statuary, fine glass fixtures, Bric-a-brac, and novelties of every description is beautiful and complete. 

Mr. Selzer imports freely from the leading foreign dealers and manufacturers, with whom he has established business relations of the most advantageous kind. The best productions of America are kept in abundant supply, and the means are here offered for the gratification of every desire and fancy. The facilities and resources of the house are such that every favorable opportunity of the markets is commanded. 

The trade is very heavy. The inspection of the many treasures exhibited is earnestly requested, the proprietor taking just pride in every article handled, and desiring that the benefit should inure to all as far as he can contribute to such a consummation. 

The sales rooms are located at No. 18 Euclid avenue, admirably furnished and arranged, and a credit to the enterprise and liberality of their direction. Mr. Selzer was born in Cleveland, and understands the wants of the population. No detail of excellence has been omitted in the conduct of the affairs of his house."

Leading manufacturers and merchants of the City of Cleveland and Environs. A Half Century’s Progress. 1836-1886;  by International Publishing

1881: "Young C. A. Selzer opened a business this year, on lower Euclid Avenue, that was the show place of Cleveland. It was stocked with imported china and glass, silver, furniture, furnishings, and decorative art that made it a veritable museum of the Old World. 

A great attraction was a white crane in the playing fountain where the lower level of the store began. Selzer later moved his famous galleries to the Hickox Building, then to the Bulkley Building, and they were eventually taken over by the George Bowman Company." 

Cleveland the making of a city;  William Ganson Rose

NOTE: the date given as 1881 as apposed to 1877

The Cleveland Blue Book 1922 

Manufactured by Brown Westhead Moore & Co

C. A. Selzer
Euclid Ave: 
Cleveland

- details on Cauldon - 

Cauldon
Stoke-on-Trent
England

C. A. Selzer
Cleveland

Manufactured for
C. A. Selzer
Cleveland

- details on Mintons - 

C. A. Selzer
Cleveland, Ohio

- details on Wedgwood - 

two of them just carry only the Cauldon Ware / Brown Westhead Moore & Co mark and the other three also additionally marked with C.A. Selzer  

C. A. Selzer
Cleveland

C. A. Selzer
Cleveland

H & Co
L

D & Co
France

C. A. Selzer
Cleveland