Products
Buttons
Bapterosses & Cie was bent on efficiency and multiplied inventions to boost productivity. For instance in 1858 (US letters of patent N°19,120), they invented buttons with shanks. Mr Bapterosses was also a precocious marketing man in the sense that he immediately advertised his products under the FB brand and associated it with the numerous medals and awards he had received the world over.
Beads
With the growing colonial thrust a new market appeared notably in Africa for fancy beads. The models made included faceted beads, mother-of-pearl beads and chevron beads. They were also used for trading with Native Americans in the second half of the 19th century, as well as for the fashion conscious ladies of the time.
Mosaics
With the Art Nouveau movement, there was a revival of interest in mosaics. Émaux de Briare introduced a new concept of pre-cut mosaics that would make it much cheaper to adorn buildings, than with the traditional method. When the Art Deco movement came, Emaux de Briare adapted and worked with then trendy architects such as Robert Mallet-Stevens, (bathroom in Villa Cavrois for instance. Later emaux de Briare mosaics were also much used in the Op art movement, notably by Victor Vasarely or Yaacov Agam. Today, Briare mosaics are used by street artists, such as the French Invader.
Markets
The American market
In 1853, the buttons were exhibited in the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City. In 1876, beads appeared in the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia at which time the company was awarded a prize medal. Then in Chicago, in 1893, the mosaics appeared in the World's Columbian Exposition.
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The main customers in the latter part of the 19th century were:
Howard, Sanger Co's dry goods store at 105-107 Chambers Street, New York.
Louis B. Binsse & Co's fancy goods store at 83 William Street in New York.
Dieckerhoff, Raffloer at 560 Broadway, New York.
Ostheimer Bros. in Philadelphia, PA.
Other markets
Emaux de Briare exhibited in numerous world exhibitions:
Paris in 1855, honor medal; London in 1862 « prize medal »; Porto in 1865, "gloria victoribus" medal; Paris in 1867, gold medal and in 1878 Grand Prize; Vienna in 1873, medal; Sydney in 1879; Melbourne in 1880; Amsterdam in 1883, medal; Antwerp in 1885, gold medal; Paris in 1889 « Grand Prize ».
Emaux de Briare beads were especially successful in Africa in the latter part of the 19th century, because of their regular appearance imitating ancient beads.
