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Silver Caudle Cup The caudle cup was an English silver form dating to the late 17th century that usually had a gourd shaped body with two handles and a cover. It reached it’s height of popularity during the reign of Charles II. Next to the tankard it was considered an indispensable possession of every English household. It was possibly used to serve caudle which was a warm ale or wine concoction of bread, gruel, [...] Click here to continue reading. Pig Banks Why do so many banks take the form of a pig? In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries dishes and cookware in Europe were made of a dense orange clay called “pygg”. People saved coins in jars made of this clay and the jars became known as “pygg banks.” When an English potter misunderstood the word, he made a bank that resembled a pig. And it caught on. Fiche Hinges The barrel form hinges found on the doors of French furniture and Louisiana case furniture of the Colonial period (1750-1803), are referred to as fiche hinges. The French word fiche when applied to hinges means a pin or a peg. It has other meanings including a slip of paper or small card. The tubular sturdy fiche hinges are usually made from brass or steel, and can be found in multiples or singles [...] Click here to continue reading. Minton Pottery & Porcelain Thomas Minton was born in 1765. By 1793 he had established his own engraving business and was considered to be a ‘Master Engraver’ producing patterns for the Caughley Works, Spode and Copeland among others. With ambitions beyond his success as an engraver, Minton entered the pottery manufacturing business with two partners, Mssrs. Poulson and Pownall, in 1793. The factory and its ovens were built from the ground up and consequently [...] Click here to continue reading. David Dixon Porter, Admiral USN (1813-1891) Born at Chester, Pennsylvania, June 8, 1813, the son of David and Evelina Anderson Porter. David Dixon Porter married Georgie Ann Patterson, March 10, 1839 and they had ten children, including Lieutenant Colonel Carlile Patterson Porter. He was commissioned Lieutenant, U.S. Navy, 1841, and commanded a landing party of 70 seamen and captured Fort Tabasco, Mexico, in 1847; he commanded the steamer Panama, 1849, and made a voyage [...] Click here to continue reading. Louis Henri Sullivan, Architect (1856-1924) Louis H. Sullivan is best known for being at the forefront of American architecture and skyscraper design in the late 1800′s. With his architectural background stemming from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Sullivan settled in the booming metropolis of Chicago and joined fellow “American” architects Henry Hobson Richardson, John Wellborn Root and Frank Lloyd Wright in emphasizing the design principle, “Form Follows [...] Click here to continue reading. Samuel Adams (American, 1722 to 1803) Born in 1722, Patriot Sam Adams gained fame as being the chief agitator of the Boston Tea Party. He served as a tax collector in Boston from 1756 to 1764 and from 1765 to 1774 was a member of the Massachusetts legislature. Adams organized resistance to the British Stamp Act in 1765 and founded the Boston Committee of Correspondence in 1772. He was a delegate to the First [...] Click here to continue reading. Hubley Banks & Toys Hubley Manufacturing Company began operation in 1894 and was located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They expanded their basic line of toys in the 1920s to include bookends, ashtrays, and doorstops. Unlike most other companies who produced toys and banks as a profitable sidelines to their hardware manufacturing, John Hubley, the founder of the Hubley Manufacturing Company, emphasized toy and bank manufacturing from the very beginning. The company used the patterns of [...] Click here to continue reading. The Grey Iron Casting Company Grey Iron began as the Wrightsville Hardware Company in 1881 to manufacture toys. In 1912, the company assumed the new name of the Grey Iron Casting Company and went into business on its own, based in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania. The company produced a wide array of iron banks and toys, including military miniatures. Their first iron banks were made in 1903, and they ceased bank production in 1925 – [...] Click here to continue reading. Erickson Glass Works The Erickson Glass Works was founded in 1943 by two Swedish brothers, Carl and Steven Erickson, in Breman, Ohio. Their mold blown products are characterized by controlled bubbles, relatively heavy casings and, often, a heavy ball base. The works closed in 1961. |
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