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A SIX-PIECE SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE
THE TWO TEAPOTS AND WASTE BOWL MAKER'S MARK OF CHARLES L. BOEHME, THE CREAM JUG AND SUGAR BOWL MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN & ROBERT MONTEITH, THE COFFEE POT MAKER'S MARK OF LITTLETON HOLLAND, BALTIMORE, CIRCA 1816
Comprising coffee pot, two teapots, cream jug, sugar bowl and waste bowl; each vase-shaped, on spreading circular foot engraved with a bead and scroll band, the body bright-cut engraved with a band of foliate scrolls and strawberrries within bead and wrigglework bands, each side engraved with a cartouche within tied foliate fronds, one side engraved with the script initials PET, the hinged domed covers with engraved bands and surmounted by oval urn finials, each marked, cream jug with Baltimore assay office mark and dominical letter D--height of coffee pot 13 3/4in.
(gross weight 145 oz.) (6)
Provenance
Philip Evan Thomas, Quaker of Baltimore, was the first president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and one of its founders in 1828. hew was a member of the first committee of directors, formed in order "to take into consideration the best means of restoring to the city of Baltimore that portion of the Western trade which have lately been diverted from it by the introduction of steam navigation and other causes." (See Maryland Historical Magazine, vol. XV, March 1920, p. 15).
