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Richard Kurtzman Moderator Posts: 768 Registered: Aug 2000	posted 08-24-2010 12:51 AM Shown above is a photo from page 238 of the catalogue for the MODERNISM IN AMERICAN SILVER exhibition. The caption for the illustration describes the items as a creamer and sugar bowl and a covered pot by Towle Silversmiths and Lenox China. At the rear of the catalogue is a listing of items. The listing for the covered pot, in part, reads: The function of this pear-shaped covered pot, which has a jade green enamel-tipped finial that matches the creamer and sugar bowl in the previous entry is unclear, but it may have been a container for artificial sweeteners. Below is a page from a 1958 Towle Hollowware Catalog showing that the pot is actually an instant coffee caddy and that it came with an under tray. IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 08-24-2010 04:51 AM Thank you Richard. IP: Logged
denimrs Posts: 102 Registered: Dec 2005	posted 08-24-2010 09:48 AM Thanks for this post. Not only did I learn that someone thought to make nice containers for instant coffee to be used at the table, but I learned about this exhibit and the book/catalog, which is now on my list of books to get. It looks like an amazing array of silver objects were put together for this exhibit. Elizabeth IP: Logged
taloncrest Posts: 169 Registered: Jun 2004	posted 08-24-2010 09:08 PM I take it the underplate is porcelain as well? Sometimes it is hard to tell in a picture. I've got one of those sterling and glass Frank M. Whiting instant coffee containers with Instant Coffee etched in the glass body, but this one is so much more stylish. IP: Logged
Richard Kurtzman Moderator Posts: 768 Registered: Aug 2000	posted 08-26-2010 11:42 AM It's very hard to tell from the photo, and I am far from 100 percent certain, but I believe that the tray is sterling. [This message has been edited by Richard Kurtzman (edited 08-26-2010).] IP: Logged
taloncrest Posts: 169 Registered: Jun 2004	posted 08-26-2010 09:20 PM Thanks, Richard. Sterling would look better. I've gone and ordered the catalog myself. I can't wait to get it. IP: Logged
Ulysses Dietz Moderator Posts: 1265 Registered: May 99	posted 08-31-2010 02:44 PM A comment on two fronts. Jewel Stern nicely donated one of the Lenox/Towle creamer-sugar combos to the Newark Museum. But back in the 1950s we purchased the Towle jam jar combo, with a black ceramic jam jar, which has a silver lid (with a black plastic knob) and a silver underplate--very like the one in the advert--I am afraid we have no image of it. IP: Logged
Richard Kurtzman Moderator Posts: 768 Registered: Aug 2000	posted 09-09-2010 10:20 AM Ulysses, Is this the piece you were referring to? IP: Logged
Ulysses Dietz Moderator Posts: 1265 Registered: May 99	posted 09-15-2010 03:36 PM That's it! Good for you. IP: Logged

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