posted 10-31-2002 07:34 AM            

From ozfred:

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..... Another item of interest that might appreciated by anyone compiling a record Marshall Field's Colonial Silver workshop output is a porringer.

Anthony Jahn, Archivist/Historian of Marshall Field's advised that it was manufactured after 1914 and before the early 1930's. The porringer weighs 5 ounces and the bowl is 4 7/8inches across.

Apparently Field's did not keep the records containing specifics regarding the silver workshop.

An incidental point is the Morse family crest and motto is to the right of the handle, this would appear to indicate that either the engraver or the recipient was left handed.

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posted 10-31-2002 10:21 AM            

The late teens and 20's were the time when the Nouveau Riche began collecting colonial artifacts, and the first important collections of American decorative arts were formed. The tastemakers' enthusiasm for Early American filtered down to all levels of society, and reproductions of colonial items filled the homes of the middle classes, as the Stickley furniture and Tiffany lamps were relegated to the attic or the dump.

Thanks for sharing!

posted 10-31-2002 11:01 AM            

I have see images of costume parties that were held to celebrate our colonial heritage and the participants would dress in colonial garb and I am certain meals must have been served using period style holloware and flatware.