Green paper-covered, rectangular box, printed in gray at center of cover "(5-pointed star) ROGERS & BRO. 12. (arched) / TRIPLE PLATE. / WATERBURY, CONN. (curved)" in several decorative fonts. Interior is lined with burgundy paper and has red-wool covered wooden supports at ends slotted to receive six knives. Original manufacturer's box for set of 6 Rogers & Bro. "Star" brand No. 12 table knives, 1986.0531.226-.231.
Dessert knife having a blunt-tip blade with integral single-groove ("Yankee") bolster and flat, rounded-edge ivory block handle; tang is secured with a single pin near center of handle. Incuse banded oval mark on blade with “LAMSON & GOODNOW / M.F.G. Co” in sans serif and serif letters surrounding a sideways fouled anchor.
Handleless, flared tulip-shape cup or beaker on a flattened foot; two bands of engine-turned decoration at midbody with pairs of lines near rim and base and a single line at rim. Rounded bottom, continuous with body, has been pushed up inside. No marks.
Stepped flat-top lidded tankard engraved with line of descent to donor on front of body. Raised straight tapered sides; flared and scored rim; and applied molded base. Lid crenellated and engraved at front. Cast S-curve scroll thumbpiece attaches to five-knuckle hinge with baluster drop. Hollow, D-section, S-curve handle has a curved rounded point terminal. Struck once on bottom underside over centerpoint "EP" in raised serif letters in a rectangle. Centerpoint on inside and outside of lid.
Maker is Elias Pelletreau (1726-1810); worked in New York, NY, 1747-1750: Southampton, Long Island, 1750-1776; Simsbury, CT, circa 1776-1780; Saybrook, CT, circa 1780-1782; and Southampton, Long Island, 1782-1810. His four surviving account books include the sale of fixty-six tankards.