Vintage F.B. Rogers Paul Revere Silver Plate Pitcher, c. 1955–1985
Viridian Eclection
The Piece
A silver plate water pitcher in the Revere form: a plain swelling body rising from a stepped circular foot to a wide mouth, with a broad lipped pouring spout and a strap handle.
The body is entirely undecorated. Everything the form does it does with line, the profile drawn from a narrow foot out through a full belly and back in to a slightly flared rim, which is the whole point of the Revere shape and the reason it has been copied for two centuries.
The spout is drawn out and cut back on the inside into an ice guard, the lip folded down so that a pitcher of iced water pours clear. The strap handle is applied at the rim and again low on the body, beaded along its outer edge and thumbed out at the lower terminal.
The piece is in an uncleaned state. Tarnish lies across the body in bands of slate, gold and plum, deepest where the surface has been sheltered, with the handle and rim rubbed back to bright silver where hands have been. The plate is unbroken at the wear points with no copper bleeding through.
History & Provenance
The base carries a struck mark reading Paul Revere above a crown flanked by 18 and 83 with TRADE MARK across the top, F. B. ROGERS SILVER CO. beneath, and below that the pattern number 7504 and the word Reproduction.
That mark repays reading carefully, because the date in it is routinely misunderstood. The 1883 is not a year of manufacture. It is the founding year of the firm, incorporated into a registered trademark alongside the crown, and it appears unchanged on F. B. Rogers hollowware made across many decades. A piece carrying it is not an 1883 piece.
The company itself is well documented. F. B. Rogers Silver Co. was founded at Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts in 1883 and moved to Taunton, Massachusetts in 1886, where it remained, taking premises on Wales Street in 1925 and on West Water Street in 1943. In 1955 it became a division of the National Silver Company. The business was finally wound up in the 2000s and the Taunton works were demolished in 2009.
The word Reproduction, struck as part of the mark, is the firm stating plainly that the form is after Paul Revere and not by him. Revere reproduction hollowware with four digit pattern numbers of this kind is the output of the National Silver era rather than of the earlier independent company, which is what sets the range given below. No monogram or presentation inscription is present.
Product Details
| Era | c. 1955–1985. Dated from the mark and the company record. The crown with 18 and 83 is the registered trademark referring to the firm's 1883 founding and is not a date of manufacture. The Paul Revere Reproduction line with four digit pattern numbers belongs to the period after F. B. Rogers became a division of the National Silver Company in 1955. The secure outer bracket is the firm's working life from 1883 to the 2000s |
| Maker | F. B. Rogers Silver Co., Taunton, Massachusetts |
| Pattern | 7504, marked Paul Revere Reproduction |
| Form | Water pitcher. Revere form on a stepped circular foot, ice guard spout, beaded strap handle |
| Material | Silver plate |
| Marks | Struck to the base: Paul Revere, TRADE MARK, crown flanked by 18 and 83, F. B. ROGERS SILVER CO., 7504, Reproduction |
| Dimensions | Approximately 8 in. across the handle by 9 in. high |
| Condition | Very good beneath the tarnish. No dents, splits or repairs found. Handle tight at both terminals. Spout true and the ice guard undamaged. Heavy tarnish across the body in an uncleaned state, with no break in the plate and no copper showing at the rim, spout or handle. Offered unpolished so the buyer can choose the finish |
Why It Belongs in Your Home
The Revere form is the most quietly useful silhouette in American silver. It has no ornament to date it, no handles to fight a table setting and no pattern to match, which is why it sits as easily on a modern kitchen island as on a mahogany sideboard.
Polished, it goes back to a clean warm mirror and becomes a serving pitcher for water, iced tea or wine, with the ice guard doing exactly what it was drawn to do. Left as it is, the mottled slate and gold tarnish is a look in its own right and one a good many decorators now pay for.
It is also a first rate vase. A plain silver body takes a loose armful of garden flowers, branches or hydrangea better than any glass, and holds them upright without a frog.
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