TOWLE STERLING SILVER ~ 1960's Teal Green Enamel Bowl #523 Newburyport, MA

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TOWLE STERLING SILVER ~ 1960's Teal Green Enamel Bowl #523 Newburyport, MATowle Silversmiths was formed as the Towle Manufacturing Company in 1880 in Newburyport, Massachusetts. In 1682 William Moulton II (1664-1732) left the family farm in Hampton, New Hampshire and settled near the Merrimac River in a section of Newbury, Massachusetts that was later to become Newburyport. In 1690, William was the first to attempt silversmithing in Newbury, thus gaining the title of the first silversmith in a long lineage of craftsmen. Six consecutive generations of Moulton silversmiths followed. Towle Silversmiths represents centuries of silversmithing without interruption on the banks of the Merrimac River in Newburyport.This beautiful sterling silver and teal green enameled bowl #523 is the result of the "explosion of color" that pervaded silverware in the 1960's & was prompted by the 1950's metal-ware of Scandinavia. Experiments in enamel-ware at the Towle Silversmiths were motivated by the enamel work of Margaret Craver Withers and the jeweler/metal-smith Earl Pardon.The bowl sits on a raised, ribbed base & measures 6-7/8" across the top, 4" in height and 3-3/4" across the base. It is stamped "Towle Silversmiths Newburyport Massachusetts, the Towle logo of a Lion in a shield, Sterling & 523".It's a personal item, a family gift, that has been read more