Dessert fork, with matching knife (See 1986.0531.128). Three-tined with chamfered baluster stem. Tines, stem, and bolster are one piece of steel with tang fitted into tapered wooden block handle with flat sides, chamfered edges and rounded butt. Tang is held in place with a single brass pin through side. Scratched overall, minor discoloration on metal.
Blade of matching knife is stamped: “J. RUSSELL & CO/GREEN RIVER WORKS”; partially worn.
Handle is stamped: “U.S.”
Stamped on neck: “[worn]EL/[worn]ED”
Maker is John Russell & Company, Turner Falls, Massachusetts, 1834-present.
Floral repousse pitcher with tall neck and globular body on gadrooned circular foot. Decoration features a dove or pigeon perched left on front amidst flowers and foliage, including daffodils, daisies or cosmos, dogwoods, ferns, cattails or reeds and ears of wheat. Gadrooned underbelly and hollow C curve handle, the handle alternating with leafy volutes and ending in a reeded volute for lower terminal. Cusped rim has wide, shallow pouring lip. Underside of flat bottom struck incuse with concentric circular mark of "SIMPSON.HALL.MILLER & C\o" bordering "QUADRUPLE (arched) / (upside-down "T" motif) / PLATE" above "215".
Dinner fork. Two-tined, tin-plated steel, with chamfered baluster stem, fitted into a tapered wood block handle with straight sides and rounded butt. Tang is held in place with a single brass pin through top. Tin is heavily worn, minor rust. Handle is scratched. Discolored with adhesive residue on back side near butt. Brass has minor corrosion. No mark.
Small, three-tined fork with slender baluster stem fitted into a slightly flared, rectangular ivory handle chamfered at edges and rounded-over at end that is engraved lengthwise on front “GOOD GIRLS REWARD” in a scrolled banner, colored black; no bolster. No marks. From a two-piece child's or youth's flatware set (knife and fork), 1986.0531.084-.085.
Dinner knife. Straight silver-plated steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and “yankee” style bolster are one piece of steel with tang fitted into tapered ivory block handle with rounded sides and butt. Blade is heavily scratched, tarnished. Ivory is yellowed and discolored overall, minor crazing.
Stamped on blade: “VANDERSLICE & CO”
Maker is possibly Vanderslice & Company, a San Francisco-based manufacturer and dealer active circa 1863-1908.
Baluster- or pear-shaped coffeepot with flared, serpentine-lobed rim and molded midband on molded, flared base; inset, high-domed, hinged lid topped by wood button knop fastened with wing nut; double C-scroll spurred handle with split scroll terminal and ivory-colored insulators; and S-curve spout with split, spurred lip, flat sides and rounded face and belly. Underside of body struck incuse "PAIRPOINT / PEWTER" and "P170"in sans serif letters. From three-piece coffee service, 1989.0122.02-.04.
Maker is Pairpoint Corporation of New Bedford, MA; 1880-1958. Started as Pairpoint Manufacturing Company, producing plated mounts for Mt. Washington Glass Company; Pairpoint merged with Mt. Washington in 1894 and name changed to Pairpoint Corporation. Only glass made after 1929.
Set of six dinner knives (1986.531.162-.167) in light brown flannel carrying pouch with individual pockets for each knife (1986.531.247). Straight silver-plated steel blade with rounded tip and “yankee” style bolster fitted into tapered ivory handle with rounded sides and butt. Tang is held in place with single steel pin through side of handle. Blade is scratched, plate is worn, tarnished. Ivory is yellowed, cracked, and crazed.
Blade is stamped: “LAMSON & GOODNOW MFG Co/S. FALLS WORKS”
Maker is Lamson & Goodnow Company, a manufacturer and wholesaler active in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts 1844-present.
Dinner fork. Three-tined with baluster stem. Tines and stem are one piece of steel inserted into a tapered ivory handle with straight sides and rounded butt. Metal is corroded, moderate rust. Bolster is separating from ivory. Ivory is yellowed, crazed, had long crack near bolster. No mark.
Dinner fork, one of a set of six (1986.0531.028-.33) that match a set of seven dinner knives (1986.0531.021-.27).
Two-tined fork with baluster stem. Tines, stem, and tang are one piece. Bone scales are riveted to the top and bottom of the tang with brass pins to form a tapered block handle with chamfered edges and blunt butt. Tines are discolored, scratched, and have small rust spots, bone is crazed, cracked and chipped around edges and pulling away from the tang. Handle is missing one pin. No mark.
Blades of accompanying knives are stamped: “S. ROWLAND”; with a heart, diamond, and circle above.
Maker is possibly Sleigh Rowland, active ca 1830-1850 in Sheffield, England.
Two-handled, octagonal or panel-sided, urn-shaped sugar bowl on spool stem with conforming base and cover topped by a tiered conical finial. High, spurred, S-and-C or broken scroll handles have lower split-scroll terminals and U-shaped struts attached below rim to the upper terminals. Body, foot and cover have four flat sides and four serpentine corners. Rounded underside of body struck "JAMES / DIXON & SONS" in incuse serif letters with four sets of numbers above and below; centerpunch visible.
Carving knife, with matching fork (1986.531.238B). Straight steel blade with pointed tip; cutting edge curves toward tip. Blade is inserted into white metal bolster cap. Tang is fitted into wooden handle: teardrop-shaped, faceted, with widened shoulders near bolster, painted gray with turquoise butt. Blade is scratched with minor stains. Bolster is scratched. Handle paint is chipped and cracked.
Blade is etched: “A+J/STAINLESS”; diamond around company name (this mark was registered in 1922)
Maker is A&J Manufacturing Company of Binghamton, New York, (founded 1909) which was purchased by Ekco Housewares Company of Chicago, Illinois in 1929, at which time products featured both company's trademarks.
Three-tined fork with chamfered baluster stem. Tines, stem, and rectangular bolster are one piece of steel with tang fitted into a tapered ivory handle with straight sides and rounded butt. Metal has minor discoloration. Ivory is yellowed and separated from bolster, crack on one side. No marks. With matching knife, 1986.0531.113, marked “PRATT ROPES WEBB&Co/AMERICAN CUTLERY".
Dinner fork, part of a matching set (see 1986.0531.049 knife). Three-tined with a baluster stem. Tines, stem, and tang are one piece of steel. Horn scales are riveted to the top and bottom of the tang with brass pins to form a tapered block handle with chamfered edges and blunt butt. Steel is discolored, rusted near handle. Horn is cracked, chipped, and worn around edges and separated from tang.
Underside of stem is stamped: “STEEL”
Blade of accompanying knife is stamped: “H. G. L & Co/SHEFFIELD”
Maker is H. G. Long & Company, active in Sheffield, England ca 1846-present (now a division of H. M. Slater).
Dinner knife. Straight silver-plated steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and “yankee” style bolster are one piece of steel with tang fitted into tapered ivory handle with rounded sides and butt. Tang is held in place with an iron pin. Scratched overall. Plate is tarnished. Ivory is yellowed and crazed, has crack near bolster.
Blade is stamped: “LAMSON & GOODNOW MFG CO/S. FALLS WORKS”; with anchor in center of pointed ovoid form.
Maker is Lamson & Goodnow Company, a manufacturer and wholesaler active in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts 1844-present.