The Belais jewelry brothers were among the first to use white gold in jewelry in the United States. They worked in the late 19th and early 20th century, introducing their white gold in 1917. They held a patent on their process through the 1920's.

(1810 - present)
One of America’s oldest fine jewelers. Black, Star and Frost traces its roots to 1810. In that year, Erastus Barton and Frederick Marquand opened Marquand and Barton near New York’s Maiden Lane.