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Vinaigrettes A vinaigrette was a small box with hinged lid and internal hinged grill containing a piece of natural sponge soaked in a aromatic vinegar, used to counteract unpleasant odors. The earliest known examples date from the 15th century but they are rare in silver before 1780. The vast majority were made in the 19th century and they can be found up to 1900. Most were rectangular but there are many other examples in [...] Click here to continue reading. Crazy for Tea We’ve all seen the movies depicting English life in the 19th and early 20th centuries where a charming hostess calls on Flora, the parlor maid, to lay the tea for company. Flora soon reappears with a gleaming tea service and a plate of crumbly biscuits and sandwiches, and then retreats leaving the guests sipping and chatting. This English, and later the American, infatuation with tea may be easier to understand with [...] Click here to continue reading. Bourdaloue Formed as a small oval, slipper shaped vessel, the bourdalou is a lady’s urinal or chamber pot designed for use in public places such as churches or while traveling. The earliest surviving examples of bourdaloue are circa 1710 European products; these vessels were usually made of porcelain or pottery, particularly delft, but are known in silver or japanned metal. They were made throughout the Continent and in England, with export examples made in [...] Click here to continue reading. Dr. Elisha Kent Kane Elisha Kent Kane contracted rheumatic fever during his second year of university. This doubtless led him to the pursuit of medical studies (by age twenty-two, he had published a study of early pregnancy detection in the American Journal of Medical Sciences). Because of this training, he possessed a clear understanding of the clinical implications of the persistent endocarditis left by the disease. Without the benefit of antibiotics, it was the [...] Click here to continue reading. .style1 { margin: 9px; } Property from the Collection of Pebble Hill Foundation, Thomasville, Georgia Elizabeth Ireland Poe, known as Pansy, was the granddaughter of the Cleveland industrialist Howard Melville Hanna, brother of Marc A. Hanna, the Ohio senator who guided William McKinley to the United States Presidency in 1897. Mr. Hanna purchased Pebble Hill Plantation in 1896. Located just south of Thomasville, Georgia, Mr. Hanna and the following two generations of Hannas [...] Click here to continue reading. Silver Caudle Cup The caudle cup was an English silver form dating to the late 17th century that usually had a gourd shaped body with two handles and a cover. It reached it’s height of popularity during the reign of Charles II. Next to the tankard it was considered an indispensable possession of every English household. It was possibly used to serve caudle which was a warm ale or wine concoction of bread, gruel, [...] Click here to continue reading. Types of Ivory and the Legalities of the Ivory Trade What is Ivory? Strictly speaking, the term “ivory” refers only to the whitish-yellow material that makes up the tusks of mammals, such as elephants and walruses. Other related materials, such as that which comprises the teeth of sperm whales and, upon occasion, hippopotamuses, is often called ivory, but technically, is not. Two other related types of material are the ivory from the East Indian [...] Click here to continue reading. Mote Spoons The mote spoon, invented sometime in the 17th century, was an ingenious device for its time, and an aid to the drinking of tea. With a long tapering handle fitted with a pierced or solid bowl at one end, and a pointed or barbed tip on the other, it could skim the loose tea leaves from the beverage’s surface by means of the bowl and remove the loose tea leaves or motes [...] Click here to continue reading. Silver with the .925 Assay Mark By international treaty signed in the mid-1970′s all signatory nations recognize .925 as the silver content required for a sterling designation. Silver marked with only the .925 assay mark has likely been made after 1970. Earlier pieces may bear the .925 mark in conjunction with normal period hallmarks. Collectors should be aware that many earlier patterns have been reproduced in recent times and will frequently bear only this [...] Click here to continue reading. Maple & Co. Established in 1841 on the Tottenhan Court Road in London by a 26 year old John Maple, Maple & Co. was a designer, decorator, builder, manufacturer and, most of all, a retailer of fine furnishings to the English carriage trade. At its peak in Edwardian London, Maple & Co was known as “The largest and most convenient,” not just in the West End of London or London as a whole or [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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