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Found on large high quality silverplated urn circa 1860 - 1870.
The urn is marked with the retailers name, "E.V. Haughwout & Co New York." This retailer opened at 490 Broadway in 1857. The building still stands & bears their name.
The urn is also marked with an eagle mark I don't recognize. Can anybody help? TIA
I'm afraid I can add very little, beyond the fact that E.V. Haughwout & Co. may have been more than just a retailer. While I agree it likely that in the case of your urn, the below report suggests that they did have some kind of manufacturing capability:
UNFINISHED PEARL KNIFE HANDLES
Treasury Department , March 31, 1859
Sir :—I acknowledge the receipt of your report, under date of the 8th instant, in regard to the appeal of Messrs. E. V. Haughwout & Co. from your assessment of duty at the rate of 24 per cent on an article described as unfinished pearl knife handles." The article in question is pearl sawed into the proper form for knife handles, and partially polished. It is claimed by the appellants that the pearl is converted into that form merely for the convenience of transportation, and should be treated as unmanufactured, and be subjected to a duty of 4 per cent under the classification of " mother of pearl" in schedule H. The Department is clearly of the opinion that the material imported in this form must be treated as a " manufacture " of pearl within the meaning of the law, and that the duty was properly assessed by you at the rate of 24 per cent under the classification of "manufactures of bone, shell, horn, pearl, ivory, or vegetable ivory," in schedule C of the tariff of 1857.
I am, very respectfully,
HOWELL COBB, Secretary of the Treasury
Augustus Schell, Esq., Collector, etc., New York.
Source: Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review - 1859
My guess is that your piece is coin silver. I believe there are a number of trademarks for American silver manufacturers that are yet to be identified and many may never be. The full name that goes with the retailers stamp was probably Eder Vreeland Haughwout.
I wish it were coin silver. But there are scratches underneath which show a copper underlay. The figural boar's heads also show a tiny amount of rosing. But it must be very thick silverplate as the surface really does look like coin silver.
Too bad that it is silverplate. I do see some redness by the solder on the image of the underside. The trademark is new to me, so it will be great if anyone can help with it.
