It has long been an accepted fact that the best magical wands currently available for purchase are from the firm of Wickerby, Driftwood, and Ember, still located in its original location of Greenford. In the 1820s, with the incredible productivity of the land making it for a time the wealthiest per capita in the world (for citizens, anyhow), those who are magically gifted and inclined were forced to import wand made elsewhere, often at great expense, The wands made at Thirodeux in New Orleans were disdained as being too French, while those coming out of Schiarvelli in New York were seen as too Northern. So three of the most gifted sorcerers in the state pooled their resources to create the factory: Silas Wickerby, Enos Driftwood, and Leonidas C. Ember. Wickerby was a lawyer by trade and drew up the contracts; Driftwood a timberman who sourced materials, and Ember a machinist who made the parts. Together, they were able to manufacture a magical wand that could compete with any in the world, and it wasn’t long before everyone who was anyone carried a Wickerby, Driftwood, and Ember wand.
Of course, there were difficult times as well. The factory was seized and burned by the 35th Sorcerous Brigade of the Union Army during the late unpleasantness, and the then-owners Wickerby Jr., Driftwood III, and old man Ember himself were forced to buy it back using their own money. But with time, the factory once again regained its former preeminence. Indeed, the three families control it to this day using the same legal instrument.
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