AMERICAN PEWTER COFFEE POT LEONARD REED BARTON C 1835

DIMENSIONS

13” tall x 12 ½” handle to spout tip.


DESCRIPTION
Large coffee pot with ebonized wood handles and top finial. Cornucopia handle connector and swan-like spout. Mark reads in full “2900 / LEONARD REED & BARTON / 10.”

The company operated under this name for a very short time, from 1837-1840. From answers.com come this company history:

The man responsible for the founding of Reed & Barton, Isaac Babbitt, never worked with silver. He first employed pewter--an alloy composed of lead and tin and used to make everyday items such as tankards and dishes. Babbitt, who ran a pewter shop in Taunton, Massachusetts, then found a way to emulate a white metal alloy made from tin, antimony, and copper called Britannia metal, used by the British in the making of flatware and holloware sold in the United States. In 1824 he joined forces with Taunton jeweler William Crossman, forming a company named Babbitt & Crossman to produce their own Britannia tableware. Over the next two decades the company added associates and periodically amended its name, becoming Babbitt, Crossman & Company in 1827, Crossman West & Leonard two years later, and the Taunton Britannia Manufacturing company in 1830. Along the way, Henry G. Reed and Charles E. Barton, friends and fellow craftsmen, came to work at the firm. When the business failed in 1834, following years of steady growth, Reed and Barton, just in their 20s, stepped in to buy it. In 1837 the company was renamed Leonard, Reed & Barton, then in 1840 it assumed its modern name, Reed & Barton.











CONDITION Overall excellent. Minor dents in body and upper edge. Repairs to wooden handle, and a small from the wooden finial (all visible in the images). A FINE AND RARE FORM BY A WELL KNOWN AMERICAN PEWTERER.

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