AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD

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Lot 380 | AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD
AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD

MARK OF BENJAMIN BURT, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1780

Tapering cylindrical with molded base band and mid-rib, the high stepped domed cover with writhen finial and scroll thumbpiece, the scroll handle with baluster drop and oval disc terminal, engraved with block monogram F / N*D, marked left of upper handle terminal Benjamin Burt in a cartouche (Kane mark A)

9 3⁄8 in. (23.8 cm.) high

28 oz. 8 dwt. (883 gr.)





Provenance

Fox family, Portland, Maine.

With Whimsy Antiques, Arlington, Vermont.

Acquired by the present owners from the above, 7 May 1963.



Literature

Advertised by Whimsy Antiques, publication unknown, May 1963.

Allan Wardwell, "One Hundred Years of American Tankards," Antiques, 1 July 1966, pp. 82-83, fig 5.

Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers, New Haven, 1998, p. 240.
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