Name: LEE & WIGFULL !! Rare Antique 1870-1899 Lee&Wigfull, Sheffield Silver Plated Teapot
SKU: 7777
Price: 152.00 ZAR
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LEE & WIGFULL !! Rare Antique 1870-1899 Lee&Wigfull, Sheffield Silver Plated Teapot

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RARE ANTIQUE 1870 - 1899 LEE & WIGFULL, SHEFFIELD, SILVER PLATED "HARDENED METAL FITTINGS" TEAPOT - EDWARDIAN WITH ETCHED PATTERNING

FORMED IN THE EARLY 1800's AS A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN GEORGE S. LEE AND HENRY WIGFULL IN CHARLOTTE STREET WORKS, SHEFFIELD. THE FIRM WAS DESCRIBED AS A MANUFACTURING SILVERSMITH, ELECTRO PLATER AND BRITANNIA METAL SMITH. IN 1870 THE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN GEORGE SHADFORD LEE AND HENRY WIGFULL WAS DISSOLVED ALTHOUGH HENRY WIGFULL CONTINUED UNDER THE FORMER NAME OF "L & W s" IN 1899 THE FIRM WAS CONVERTED INTO AN Ltd AND THE NAME ON SILVER PLATED WARES BECAME "LEE & WIGFULL Ltd" ALSO USING THE TRADE NAMES "ALBION" AND "INSIGNIA"

THIS ITEM IS AN EDWARDIAN STYLE ANTIQUE SILVER PLATED TEAPOT DESIGNED WITH GORGEOUSLY FLUTED SIDES, AN ELEGANT GOOSENECK SPOUT WITH FLUTED AS WELL AS EMBOSSED LINEAR AND SCROLL MOTIFS AND AN ART DECO STYLE HOLLOWARE HANDLE. THE TEAPOT HAS A HINGED LID WITH DOMED RIBBED PORTION AND WOOD LID FINIAL. THE SIDES BENEATH THE RIM AND ABOVE THE BASE HAVE BEEN DECORATED IN ETCHED SWAG ETC LINEAR PATTERNING

STAMPS/MARKS ETC : THE ITEM IS STAMPED UNDERNEATH - "EPNS, WITH HARDENED METAL FITTINGS, SHEFFIELD" FOLLOWED BY AN INDISTINCT ALTERED LETTER WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN AN "L" AND - "W s, SPECIAL"

CONDITION : THE TEAPOT IS IN PERFECT CONDITION WITH NO PATINA, DENTS, RUST OR DAMAGES ETC

SIZE : 18cm HEIGHT OF HANDLE.....16.8cm HEIGHT OF SPOUT.....19cm HEIGHT WITH LID FINIAL.....15.5cm HEIGHT OF RIM..... 12.8cm by 10.4cm OVAL BASE.....23.4cm TIP OF SPOUT TO BACK EDGE OF HANDLE

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