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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: Bradley on May 18, 2015, 09:13:59 PM
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Age and origin of this vessel? I might call this the "ugly stray dog" of metal tankards, because I'm pretty sure only I would find its "survived a shipwreck" esthetic appealing. It is 5 inches tall and three inches across the base and the mouth. The base metal of the whole thing appears to have been copper coated with tin or silver. I am guessing tin. The brass handle is riveted on with what appear to be copper rivets. The bottom seems to have been pinched/crimped on to the body of the vessel. And there seem to be quite a few of these in the antiques markets here in Savannah. Slightly different sizes and shapes, but certain features are consistently the same: same copper base metal, same fading coating (probably tin), a narrow curved brass handle, and a pinched-on/crimped-on bottom piece.
Are these features common to a particular era and/or region?
Also, there seems to have been a much more modern recent coating applied to the interior bottom of the piece. I would guess this was done to make usable without leaking.
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That is a piece that was made in Turkey to look like a relic. I was fooled by them early on. Here is another example. The key is that it is too crude. American and English metal workers were concerned with perfection in execution.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/112389857/vintage-copper-tankard-hand-wrought
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I guess the seller on that link was fooled too. They are convinced it is quite old. LOL
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Watch out for pots with dovetailed seams and lots of dents. I paid a lot more for one once, than I should have.
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Been seeing those, especially the dovetailed seams. Wondered what they were about. It would be nice if there were a book (or site) on old fabrication methods, with a checklist of sorts to assess what era and area an item was made in.