✅ SOLVED Help with Silver Teapot/Coffee pot with stamp on bottom.

[chadkeath]

Thank you in advance again for your help. I appreciated the help on the fork silversmith mark. I have this old teapot or is a coffee pot. It is silver. But I don’t know if it is silver plate or silver? It is stamped on bottom. The mark is like a bird or eagle? Or something of that nature. It has what I think is a glass handle or maybe ceramic? It doesn’t have a metallic smell or does an earth magnet stick to it. The only stamps are on the bottom. This was a thrift store find.

 

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[Bramblefind]

Hi - I thought the mark looked like an eagle with a snake so I searched for that. I think it is a match for the German maker J.P. Kayser & Son silverplate.

Here's a Worthpoint listing-

Antique German J. P. Kayser & Son Silver Plate Coffee Pot w hinged lid | #3895894514

Listing is for one (1) silver plate coffee pot by German silver and metalsmiths J.P. Kayser & Son; 8 3/4 tall x 3 1/2 in diameter at the base; 1 1/2 liter size. Good condition with a clean interior

www.worthpoint.com

 

[chadkeath]

Thank you so much. I’ve searched and searched and came up empty. Again thank you.

 

[Red-Coat]

No reflection on @Bramblefind, but The problem with ‘WorthPoint’ is that it’s not an authoritative source of information. It just regurgitates listings from eBay and elsewhere without any validation or verification and the information has varying degrees of reliability. In this case, the eBay seller from whom the information came has it wrong.


The mark on the coffee pot from @chadkeath does indeed match the one sold on eBay, buy it’s not a J.P. Kayser mark. Kayser (originally Johann Peter Kayser, then Englebert Kayser and still in business today as ‘Kayserzinn’) was a renowned maker of pewter goods but, as far as I know, not a producer of silver plate. They did use eagle marks for a while, but not like the one on this coffee pot.

The mark shown is that of Kallmeyer & Harjes Metallwarenfabrik of Gotha in Germany. The company was established in 1887 by Philipp Harjes and Hermann Kallmeyer and then in sole ownership of Harjes from 1899. A few years before Harjes’ death in 1933 the company passed into other hands and then went bust in 1938/1939. They used the eagle with spread wings trademark in various forms, with and without a snake in the beak.

 

[chadkeath]

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No reflection on @Bramblefind, but The problem with ‘WorthPoint’ is that it’s not an authoritative source of information. It just regurgitates listings from eBay and elsewhere without any validation or verification and the information has varying degrees of reliability. In this case, the eBay seller from whom the information came has it wrong.


The mark on the coffee pot from @chadkeath does indeed match the one sold on eBay, buy it’s not a J.P. Kayser mark. Kayser (originally Johann Peter Kayser, then Englebert Kayser and still in business today as ‘Kayserzinn’) was a renowned maker of pewter goods but, as far as I know, not a producer of silver plate. They did use eagle marks for a while, but not like the one on this coffee pot.

The mark shown is that of Kallmeyer & Harjes Metallwarenfabrik of Gotha in Germany. The company was established in 1887 by Philipp Harjes and Hermann Kallmeyer and then in sole ownership of Harjes from 1899. A few years before Harjes’ death in 1933 the company passed into other hands and then went bust in 1938/1939. They used the eagle with spread wings trademark in various forms, with and without a snake in the beak.

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Thank you for the update. I appreciate it. Sorry for lateness of my reply.