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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 2217569, member: 111&quot;]Understand that you are new here, and please forgive me for not having extended a &#039;welcome&#039;.&nbsp; Believe those who have known me for some time, know that I do not state an ID as fact unless I am quite sure and am able to back it up with reliable reference, which was done here.&nbsp; I could pull images and text from other catalogs and books, but won&#039;t bother wasting my time...</p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently what you&#039;re saying is that an illustration from a Reed &amp; Barton catalog showing a similar piece with the same type &#039;icy Arctic&#039; images (the author of the book identifying it as an &quot;ice-water urn&quot;), as well as Darkwing&#039;s catalog/ad image of a Reed &amp; Barton &quot;Arctic Chased Ice Water Set&quot;, along with those additional images of similar pieces from the Meriden Britannia catalog (where they&#039;re described as &quot;Ice Urns&quot;), one showing walrus handles, another &#039;icy environment&#039; indicator, are simply not enough to make you believe that your item was intended for ice.&nbsp; Sorry, just really don&#039;t understand why you don&#039;t believe the advertising of the period - there was no guessing in the information I gave you.&nbsp; It is not a coffee urn, which would have a warmer underneath (and no &#039;icy&#039; decoration) - it is an ice urn, even without the &#039;icy&#039; motifs, with its double walls and pedestal base, it would still be an ice urn, but wishing you luck in your further research.</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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