Old Friends
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With a top diameter of 5" and standing 2" tall, this round bowl sits on a flat base that measures 2 1/8" across. Solid silver, it weighs a substantial 5.5 T. oz.
The side has twelve panels or facets, while the top rim is splayed. All surfaces, inside and outside, are hand hammered, save for the underside bottom.
Arts & Crafts in manner, it likely dates from the early decades of the 20th century...
Old Friends
$70.00
$70.00
Made by International, whose Simpson, Hall, Miller division "helmut" emblem, "Sterling," and model number "C 1960" appear on the backside of the handle, this tea strainer is in the Arts & Crafts mode and likely dates from the first quarter of the twentieth century.
It is over-the-cup style, with a round, 2 1/8" diameter by 3/4" deep, pierced, bowl. This has a narrow rim with a rolled edge...
Old Friends
$185.00
$185.00
The Encyclopedia of American Silver Manufacturers by Dorothy Rainwater indicates that "The Kalo Shop" was founded in 1900 by Clara Barck Welles and "went on to become the largest and most influential producer of handwrought silverware and jewelry in the midwest."
Rainwater further notes that "Mrs. Welles retired in 1940." Given that this 10 1/8" long, 3.6 T. oz., serving spoon is engraved on the backside, "AS HCM" over "Feb...