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Ulysses Dietz Moderator Posts: 1265 Registered: May 99	posted 01-30-2010 04:42 PM As a curator, I desperately loved this piece...Hull and Sanderson, 1665, sold lat week at Christie's for $158k...because it represents the beginning, not to mention TEN generations in one family. Monogrammed ET, and it is indeed out of this world. Such rare things are crude and primitive, befitting their source, but they are eloquent reminders of how desperately our Puritan ancestors wanted to be genteel and to show off. Made for a child? A wedding gift? At a little over one ounce, this is actually MORE expensive than the huge Kierstede punchbowl, at $150,000 per ounce. IP: Logged
DB Posts: 252 Registered: May 2006	posted 01-31-2010 12:42 PM The Royal Ontario Museum has a few of these little cups - all English, not quite as expensive than American ones but dear nonetheless. In his last lecture to the SSC Dr. Peter Kaellgren spoke on two-handled cups and called these tram cups - tram (not sure of spelling) as in wee (little) cup. He explained that they were used to measuring out liquids - probably medicine. IP: Logged
swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 Registered: May 2003	posted 01-31-2010 02:11 PM Dram cups? A dram is a liquid measure, usually of a small amount of whisky or other spirits. Dictionary definitions (see 2a): dram 1 (drm) n. 1. Abbr. dr. a. A unit of weight in the U.S. Customary System equal to 1/16 of an ounce or 27.34 grains (1.77 grams). b. A unit of apothecary weight equal to 1/8 of an ounce or 60 grains (3.89 grams). See Table at measurement. 2. a. A small draft: took a dram of brandy. b. A small amount; a bit: not a dram of compassion. [This message has been edited by swarter (edited 01-31-2010).] IP: Logged
Ulysses Dietz Moderator Posts: 1265 Registered: May 99	posted 02-04-2010 10:26 AM I don't know why this wasn't referred to as a dram cup--it is indeed a miniature version of a form that was common in late 17th-century England, the caudle cup. Hull and Sanderson did make dram cups (many years ago I was offered one--thought to be the earliest piece of silver made in America) and it was ultimately purchased for Bayou Bend in Houston. Dram cups are flatter (shallower) and are apparently a specific shape. This, whatever it's called, could easily have been used for the same purpose (not that I understand what that was--a Puritan version of brandy shots?). Here's an old picture of a H&S dram cup IP: Logged

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