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Antique Ice Water Pitcher and Stand

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Silver Start Price:250.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 1,000.00 USD
Antique Ice Water Pitcher and Stand
IMPORTANT NOTE ON BUYERS PREMIUMS:

Lot 100 to 343 have a premium of 15%.

The rest of the sale is 19.5% as noted in the listing.

Lot Pick Up: Holabird-Kagin Americana,
3555 Airway Drive Ste #309,
Reno NV 89511,
Sunday - December 9, 10am-4pm
c1890s - A large silver-plated tilting pitcher on a stand, used for pouring cooled water directly into the matching goblet. It is ornately engraved with bird and floral motif. The stand measures 20” in height and is similarly engraved. A soldered or welded repair has recently been made to it in one place. This particular pitcher was presented to Texan John Henry Brown (1820-1895) by the Dallas Police Force upon his retirement as Mayor of Dallas in 1889, and the initials of the officers are engraved on the face. A short biography of John Henry Brown—pioneer historian and writer, newspaper editor, soldier and veteran of the Civil War, legislator and mayor—is included. The pitcher is marked “Triple Plated” on the bottom, but without a maker’s name. Some of these pitchers were produced by the Middletown Plate Co. and by the Meriden Plating Co., both located in Connecticut.

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