Just a few essentials.

The Morse Museum dates the grand opening of Tiffany & Young, the business that became Tiffany & Co., to this day in 1837. Its early stock included stationery and fancy goods.

To popping out for a notebook. Things escalated.

Sources differ: the Morse Museum gives 18 September for the grand opening; Tiffany’s own biography gives 14 September for the opening.