James Turks Creamer and Sugar Bowl

We recently found a James Turks Quadruple Plated Creamer and Sugar Bowl 2214 while cleaning out my parent's attic. I have not been able to find a lot of information about the company, how old these might be and how much they might be worth. I have found similar designs but not this design. I would appreciate any help I can get. Thanks in advance.

 

Hi KTB....welcome.

Could that read James W. Tufts instead of Turks?

 

Can you provide a better photo? And also the mark?

Thank you.

 

you are more polite than I am........good on you girl !!!

 

TY...but I love your pictorial request!!

 

Sorry it does say Tufts and not Turks it was a typo. Hopefully these pictures are better, they as good as I get with my phone we don't have a camera.

 

TY for the other photos.....

They look very very tarnished. Sometimes quadruple plate will clean evenly, and sometimes not.

Please wait for advice from others.

A link to completed sales on eBay, that perhaps you can get some ideas of value.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fro...te&LH_Complete=1&rt=nc&_trksid=p2045573.m1684

 

Quadruple plate is notorious thin, despite the mark intending to give the buyer an opposite impression.

Either the plating is already gone or your lighting is inadequate.

 

Hi,
The companies stopped using Quad plate about 1912.
greg

 

And the business was gone by 1915, anyway.

From Rainwater's Encyclopedia of American Silver Manufacturers, a brief summary.

Tufts registered his trademark in 1875. Earliest products were intended for use in "soda fountain" settings, but he branched out into other silverplated "hollowware" items (such as this urn.) Ill health caused him to turn the everyday management over to others in 1895. He bought 5000 acres in North Carolina and founded the resort town of "Pinehurst." He died there in 1902. The business continued but was no longer operating sometime before 1915.

 

i did not know that.....he said after just polishing some plate..!

 

Thanks Guys! I will try polishing them and see what happens.

 

This appears to be the same pattern in a syrup jug, described in an 1896 Tufts catalog as having an 'Embossed Body':



~Cheryl