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<p>[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 394677, member: 111"]It has a spigot, so it's an urn, if it has a percolator, then it's a coffee urn (there were also chocolate urns with stirrers), but it could also be used for hot water. The handles are very unlikely to be celluloid, but are almost certainly ivory. Carpenter's 'Tiffany Silver' (1978) shows a "coffee or hot water urn" made about 1910 with identical ivory spigot handles. It also mentions that their electroplate marks "were often more casual than their sterling marks", and noting that the pattern numbers are not chronological as on their sterling - the electroplate marks shown in the book sometimes have the director's/president's initial, sometimes a random letter like yours (those letters are not addressed), and sometimes both are present.</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 394677, member: 111"]It has a spigot, so it's an urn, if it has a percolator, then it's a coffee urn (there were also chocolate urns with stirrers), but it could also be used for hot water. The handles are very unlikely to be celluloid, but are almost certainly ivory. Carpenter's 'Tiffany Silver' (1978) shows a "coffee or hot water urn" made about 1910 with identical ivory spigot handles. It also mentions that their electroplate marks "were often more casual than their sterling marks", and noting that the pattern numbers are not chronological as on their sterling - the electroplate marks shown in the book sometimes have the director's/president's initial, sometimes a random letter like yours (those letters are not addressed), and sometimes both are present. ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]
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