Lot # 1309
Annual Summer Americana Auction, August 1 & 3, 2008
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PEWTER COFFEE POT, WILLIAM WILL, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, CIRCA 1764-1798.
Sold: $315,000.00 ($280,000)
Maker's mark stamped into the underside and having a scroll treen handle, gadrooned edges and a five knuckle hinge. Height 15 ¾ inches, diameter of base 4 3/8 inches.
Literature:
Illustrated in "Pewter in America, Its Makers & Their Marks" by Ledlie Irwin Laughlin, 1969 vol. 1, pl. XXVII, fig. 187, another example, by the same maker, is illustrated at ibid. 1971 vol 3, pl. XCI, fig 760; for discussion of maker and illustration of maker's mark see ibid. 1969 vol. 2, pp. 51-55, pl. LXVI, fig. 541, 541a.
Est. $100,000-$150,000
Literature:
Illustrated in "Pewter in America, Its Makers & Their Marks" by Ledlie Irwin Laughlin, 1969 vol. 1, pl. XXVII, fig. 187, another example, by the same maker, is illustrated at ibid. 1971 vol 3, pl. XCI, fig 760; for discussion of maker and illustration of maker's mark see ibid. 1969 vol. 2, pp. 51-55, pl. LXVI, fig. 541, 541a.
Est. $100,000-$150,000