One of the rarest forms of southern silver the water dipper was used on large plantation in the south in entrance ways of porches hung next to a water cistern of some type , for mostly male quests and gentleman , because silver was thought to have antiseptic qualities , […]
1850s
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AN EARLY SAMUEL KIRK & SON COIN SILVER PITCHER/EWER. PRESENTED IS A MAGNIFICENT PITCHER/EWER CREATED BY THE IMPORTANT BALTIMORE FATHER AND SON PARTNERSHIP OF SAMUEL KIRK AND HENRY CHILD KIRK. JUDGING FROM THE NOT YET REFINED MARKS AND THE SUMPTUOUS DECORATION–NOT SEEN IN THE LATER EXAMPLES – THIS EWER WAS […]