BEAUTIFUL BAILEY & KITCHEN 1830's COIN SILVER REPOUSSE FLOWER TOP TEA COFFEE POT

Description

This is an Estate Fresh old Coin Silver Tea or Coffee Pot from a long time collector of High End Sterling & Coin Hollowware.  I have purchased part of a huge collection and will be offering it here over the next several weeks.  This pieces are from all over place including Paris England Germany and here in the US.
This particular piece is just a stunning Georgian Style BEAUTIFUL BAILEY & KITCHEN 1830's COIN SILVER REPOUSSE RIM MORNING GLORY FLOWER TOP TEA or COFFEE POT .  It has a beautiful Aladdin's Lamp style shape, Spout and Handle.  The lid is the highlight as it has a raised fancy Morning Glory type Flower on a bed of leaves.  Its really an amazing finial.  The lid hinge works great and is undamaged and is the pot ( see above).  The Pot a
ctually weighs 422.5g until my scale topped out,  or about 13.6Toz+ but we are not selling it at weight.  This fantastic piece stands 7
" to the top of its Finial and is 11" long overall, handle to spout end.
BAILEY & kITCHEN. (AMERICAN, FOUNDED 1832) ……..
The original firm of Bailey & Co. was founded by Joseph Trowbridge Bailey (d. 1853 or 1854) and Andrew B. Kitchen
(d. 1840) and was located at 136 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1840 Joseph's brother Eli Westcott Bailey, a New York City jeweler and importer hurt financially by the Panic of 1837, came to Philadelphia and entered the firm. The name continued as Bailey & Kitchen. When Joseph died, Eli became the senior partner of Bailey & Co. until he retired in 1867, remaining a special partner until 1889. He died at 90 in 1899, his obituary appearing in the
Jewelers' Circular
of 5 April of that year. The firm was located at the following addresses: 817 Chestnut Street (1857-68), 12th and Chestnut (1868-T904), 1218 Chestnut (1904-53), and 16th and Chestnut (1953-present).
In the early 40's a vast proportion of B&K solid silver goods was produced by the firm of Taylor & Lawrie, a partnership of an Irishman and a Scotsman. Therefore Bailey & Kitchen's retail mark is often accompanied by Taylor & Lawrie's pseudo-hallmarks consisting of an American eagle, a Scotch thistle, and an Irish harp. Evidence indicates that, when Bailey & Co. added silversmithing to its production of jewelry and extensive importation of fancy goods, another Irishman George B. Sharp ran the manufacturing portion of the establishment. During this period, the wares were usually marked with a sterling mark of
(lion) s (shield)
. This part of the business was discontinued about 1868, when the firm reverted to manufacturing jewelry and retailing silverware and fancy Hollowware goods  This is the firm that eventually became the Philadelphia & the World famous Bailey Banks & Biddle.
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