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Your Price: $ 15.00
Item Number: mass34
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Circa: 1940
Manufacturer: R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co./Made in USA
This beautifully made silverplate collector spoon of the Massachusetts is marked: Wallace A 1 + on the back with a shield with stars and stripes. On the front it has a coat of arms on the top with an eagle with a shield for a chest filled with stars and stripes and 2 crossed flags under that along with the name Massachusetts.
The founder of Wallace Silversmiths, Robert Wallace was born in Prospect, Connecticut on November 13, 1815.
Having mastered the art of silver craft, Robert Wallace left his apprenticeship, purchased a dilapidated gristmill, and began to produce his own flatware. By 1833, Wallace’s silver shop was up and running. As Wallace was skilled in the art of spoon making, Wallace’s only product was spoons.
Wallace moved his factory from Cheshire, Connecticut to a point on the Quinnipiac River in Wallingford, Connecticut.
The industry continued to grow and eventually assumed large proportions during this period, Wallace produced flatware for such firms as Hall, Elton & Co., Fred R. Curtiss Co., and Meriden Britannia Co.
By 1871, Wallace had purchased the balance of his partner’s shares and together with two of his sons renamed the growing company R. Wallace and Sons Mfg. Co.
The factory added to its products sterling goods and high-grade nickel-silver plated ware, both flat and hollow. Still later, by experiment, Mr. Wallace devised a new process of manufacture from steel. It made a less bulky, firmer, and lighter base for silver plating.
In 1956 R. Wallace and Sons Mfg. Co. purchased the Watson Company and relocated to the "The Watson Co.’s" Wallingford, Massachusetts factory.
As a result of this impressive growth, the renowned Hamilton Watch Company of Lancaster, Penn. acquired Wallace Silversmiths in 1959. Over the next three decades, the ownership of Wallace Silversmiths would change three more times.
In very good condition it measures 1 1/4 inches by 5 3/4 inches.
An addition to any Silverplated Souvenir Spoon Collection.
SH & Ins.will be quoted after orders placed. If you have questions please contact me and thank you for looking. |
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