2 Grand Baroque Wallace Sterling Silver Serving Spoons

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Preferred Checkout Please use our secure vendio checkout system. Found at /checkout.x For fastest processing of your order, please use Vendio Checkout! Payment | Checkout | Shipping | Additional Information | Everything you need to know to Purchase our fine items 2 Grand Baroque Wallace Sterling Silver Serving Spoons Album Album Album Album Album Album USE OUR SECURE SHOPPING CART ! YOU MUST INPUT YOUR SHIPPING INFORMATION IN OUR ONLINE SHOPPING CART! Multiple Auctions: We can combine most auctions to save you money on shipping. We are utilizing eBay's calculated shipping and the shipping cost is calculated with their system. This will appear when you use our shopping cart. Described by: Andre, AJP GIA, RG ISG Title: 2 Grand Baroque Wallace Sterling Silver Serving Spoons Description: You're bidding on Grand Baroque Wallace Sterling Silver Serving Spoons! Awesome popular pattern! Just in time for Christmas! Please view our detailed pictures! Be sure to check our other auctions for more RARE and UNIQUE antiques and beautiful jewelry. We are offering this piece at NO Reserve! Good luck on bidding! are the specifications Manufacturer Wallace Pattern: Grand Baroque Year Design Introduced: 1941 Item: Serving Spoons Number of pieces: 2 Length: 8.75" Total Weight (troy ounces): 6.90 ozt Condition: Very good to excellent with some tiny scratches Hallmarks: Wallace Sterling Metal: Sterling silver Initial/Engraving: n/a Estimated size of Package: 9 x 6 x 3" Estimated total weight of package: 1 lbs History of Company: The founder of Wallace Silversmiths, Robert Wallace was born in Prospect, Connecticut on November 13, 1815. He was the son of Scottish immigrant and silversmith James Wallace and his wife Irene (Williams), who had immigrated in the late 18th century. The boy had only a limited education, such as sons of the farmers of that period received. At the age of 16, Robert Wallace became an apprentice to Captain William Mix, a renowned spoon maker for the Meriden Britannia Co. A Meriden Britannia apprenticeship was highly sought after because the firm was the most successful flatware and hollowware-producing firm in the Northeast. Having mastered the art of silver craft, Robert Wallace left his apprenticeship, purchased a dilapidated gristmill, and began to produce his own flatware. By 1833, Wallace's silver shop was up and running. As Wallace was skilled in the art of spoon making, Wallace's only product was spoons. Innovation One day, while shopping in New York City, Wallace happened upon a piece of flatware made of a nickel alloy called German silver that had been produced by Dixon and Sons of Sheffield, England. Impressed by the quality and strength of the piece, Wallace bought the formula from the German chemist Dr. Louis Feuchtwanger who had a small bar of that metal from Germany for the then unheard sum of $20 and went on to build these new nickel silver spoons. Later he found a man who had brought the recipe for making the metal. Wallace purchased that too. In his factory, he then compounded the first German silver made in America and pioneered the new industry. Production Wallace moved his factory from Cheshire, Connecticut to a point on the Quinnipiac River in Wallingford, Connecticut. T he increased his production of spoons and flatware. When his factory was in Cheshire, he produced three dozen spoons per day. In Wallingford, he made nine dozen daily. Wallace realized the importance of diversifying his business and began producing a complete range of flatware using the nickel alloy formula. It is from these humble beginnings that the Wallace Silversmiths were born. Growth For the next five decades, Wallace did contract work, producing f... read more

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