Griswold Hotel - New London CT - 1905 - Silver Tea Pot

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is a 1905 era side marked silver plate 5 ½" tall by 7 ¾" wide very ornate, fancy, and extremely large 18 oz. teapot from the famous Griswold Hotel that was a summer resort located in New London / Groton Connecticut area. The teapot is marked on the side "Hotel Griswold" in fancy cursive script lettering. The Griswold was a summer resort hotel that was located directly on the Eastern Point on the Thames River Atlantic Ocean area. The hotel had actual passenger steamer service at its dock. One of the steamers was also called the Steamer Griswold, which usually traversed from New York to the Groton area. The hotel in 1900 was originally called the Fort Griswold Hotel, named after the famous Revolutionary war Fort that was located in the area. By 1905 / 1910, the hotel became the "Hotel Griswold" or also called "The Griswold". During the era that this piece was used, people arriving in Groton would arrive primarily by the New York New Haven & Hartford, Central Vermont, or by passenger steamship. By the 1920's, the Hotel Griswold went under the ownership of the United Hotels Corp., that also operated the famous Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia, The Roosevelt in New York City, Alexander Hamilton at Paterson, New Jersey, the Admiral Beatty at St. Johns Nova Scotia, and the Niagara at Niagara Falls, and the Belleview in Bellaire, Florida. The side markings look great, are highly detailed, and really add to the character of the item. It was made by the R. Wallace Silver Co., and is the silver soldered, and has very ornate scrollings and designs about the teapot and handle. The teapot would have been used in the hotel's Café, Grill, dining room, restaurant, or for room service and would have been used in connection with the hotel's china for table settings. This teapot is the heavyweight type Railroad, Steamship, and Lunch Room silver plate. It is in wonderful condition with the usual light usage scratches, etc., but truly looks great! It has been properly cleaned and is ready for display in your New London, Groton, Hotel, Tea Pot / Creamer / Pitcher, or Silver Plate collection. As a geographical note New London / Groton is located near Pleasure Beach, Ocean Beach Park, Fishers Island Sound, Race Point, Great Gull Island, Plum Island, Waterford, Poquonock Bridge, West Mystic, Quaker Hill, Avery Point, Bluff Point, Haley Farm, and Noank. The area is also located South of Norwick Connecticut. The digital images do not show the original item that well. The actual item looks much better than what the digital images shows it as. Buyer to prepay item along with $8.75 which includes shipping, packing, and handling in the United States. Insurance is required and will be the responsibility of the buyer. In the rare event of an insurance claim, I will forward receipts to you and you will need to go to your local post office to file the claim, instead of you sending the package back to me (unless otherwise advised). Please allow Ten (10) days for all checks to clear. PAYPAL IS ACCEPTED! Payment must be received within Ten (10) days from the end of the auction. Three (3) day return policy with buyer paying return insured shipping (no shipping cost cannot be refunded) with a 15% service charge. I cannot be responsible for emails that are sent but blocked by servers with spam filters. If you cannot contact or do not hear from me, please contact me through ebay. Please also see the many other pieces of vintage hotel and advertising type silver plate and advertising items I am offering that that may be of interest to you. Thanks! read more

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