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Jen unregistered |
posted 04-24-2003 11:24 AM
 
Can anyone tell me what this is and possibly a time period it was made in? It is marked "Reed & Barton No. 5". Stands 4 1/4" tall by 4 5/8" round. There are four scenes - two ship scenes... one of a man kissing the queen's foot... and one of same man accepting peace pipe from indian. Cover has a deer/stag within a shield surrounded by some kind of leaves. I was thinking maybe tea or tobacco leaves. ANY ideas??? IP: Logged |
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Stephen Posts: 625 |
posted 04-24-2003 08:02 PM
Based on the style of the mark and the colonial motif, I would say that the time period is the 1910s or 1920s. The lack of a date mark would date it to before 1928. I'm not sure what it would have been sold as. You may want to contact Reed & Barton:
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Jen unregistered |
posted 04-24-2003 08:27 PM
Hi Stephen, Thank you for your reply. I've already contacted information@reedbarton.com and they replied quote: I wasn't looking for an appraisel from them, just some idea of what it was. IP: Logged |
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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 04-24-2003 08:36 PM
Given that it illustrates Sir Walter Raleigh receiving tobacco from the Indians and taking it back to Elizabeth, I would say a tobacco canister would hit the mark. This was a very popular motif -- my grandfather had one in tooled leather. IP: Logged |
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Stephen Posts: 625 |
posted 04-24-2003 10:17 PM
Jen, thanks for posting your response from Reed & Barton. I like wev's answer, but it might be interesting to see what R&B could come up with in "4-6 weeks". They might have the old catalogs, advertising, or production records. IP: Logged |
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Jen unregistered |
posted 05-09-2003 06:20 PM
You guys are good! I just received a reply from the Reed & Barton Archivist. Here's what they said..... This is a tobacco canister, which we believe was made here at our Taunton Plant, at some time, prior to WW2, possibly between 1900-1920. The top is engraved with tobacco leaves, and the center plaque may be the coat-of-arms of Sr. Walter Raliegh...The other panels represent his ship sailing 'to and from' the new world, his getting permision from the queen, and his meeting with a native american chief to obtain TOBACCO. IP: Logged |
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Stephen Posts: 625 |
posted 05-09-2003 10:05 PM
Thanks again, and I imagine that his coat-of-arms is out there on the web somewhere. Happy hunting! IP: Logged |
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Patrick Vyvyan Posts: 640 |
posted 05-29-2003 04:56 PM
Is this really Walter Raleigh? According to many sources Sir Francis Drake also introduced tobacco to England after rescuing a colony of settlers in Virginia. Could the stag/deer on the cover of this tobacco canister be a reference to Drake's ship, the "Golden Hind" (hind is, I think, a female deer, my dictionary is not a hand)? Raleigh's coat of arms, I believe, contains a cloak (a reference to te cloak he supposedly once threw over a puddle for Queen Elizabeth to walk over). Drake returned from his Golden Hind expedition to Plymouth, perhaps this is relevant to the West of England origin of this piece (Taunton). IP: Logged |
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