1911 Antique Spaulding & Co Sterling Silver / Glass Condiment Mustard Pot

  

ANTIQUE STERLING SILVER / GLASS MUSTARD POT. This stunning timepiece is truly a rare find with the finest in craftsmanship and elegance in design. This exquisite timepiece is of historical significance in that few timepieces were manufactured with such lineage, artistry in design and execution. Spaulding had a long relationship with Black, Ball & Co. And then Tiffany and Co.

Both the world leading jewelry houses of the day. He was with Tiffany from 1871 through 1889 when he opened Spaulding & Co.

I did include a short bio below. CONDITION needs a polishing, as shown, please refer to pictures. {sterling alone without glass weighs 123.8 grams}. MARKED Sterling PLACE OF ORIGIN.

Spaulding and the Spaulding & Co. Have the most impressive history. The two leading jewelry houses of the day. Making the history of this timepiece so very exceptional.

He was truly a leader in the field of fine stones and jewelry. The history is so interesting I had to share these details. I have sited a portion of the background information on Mr. Spaulding and his impressive and extensive experience. There are many experts in gems and jewels, both in this country and throughout the Old World, but in Henry Abiram Spaulding, head of the celebrated house of Spaulding & Co.

Chicago possesses one whose opportunities to inform himself almost infallibly in all departments of the lore of the jeweler's art have not been surpassed by those of any other connoisseur in the Old World or the New; and, as few men have had more to do with the extension of the American jewelry trade in foreign lands than Mr. Spaulding, his career has attracted the widest notice and comment, and is one which must prove exceptionally interesting, not only to the student of international commerce, but especially to citizens of Chicago who desire to know something of their most successful contemporary. Spaulding In 1857 was offered and accepted a place in the great New York establishment of Ball, Black & Co. At the time America's leading and the world famous jewelry house. There he was afforded exceptional opportunity to acquire knowledge of gems and jewels, which he perfected in his subsequent experience.

His connection with this house continued until 1864, when he engaged in the jewelry trade for himself, in New York, as a member of the firm of Browne & Spaulding, which was in existence until 1871. Attracted by his success, the celebrated house of Tiffany & Co. Made him a most flattering proposition to become its general representative in Europe; and in 1871 he entered upon a memorably successful career with this establishment, which resulted in the bestowal upon it of prestige such as no other American house ever had, and ended only when Mr. Spaulding engaged in his present enterprise in Chicago. During the whole period of, his connection with Tiffany & Co.

Spaulding had headquarters in Paris, France. Probably no other man, certainly no other American, has had such an opportunity as was his to examine the world's famous gems.