Price: $ 6,500.00

Fine circa 1905 six (6) piece sterling tea and coffee set by Peter L. Krider & Co. of Philadelphia, comprising a teapot, coffee pot, kettle on stand, cream jug, covered sugar bowl and waste bowl; each octagonal on octagonal foot, the entire body of each piece bright cut and engraved with baskets of flowers and in an ornamental rococo motif, the domed covers also bright cut and engraved, surmounted by finials, with scroll handles and ivory insulators.

Total weight 171 oz. Dimensions: waste bowl 5 inches wide by 5 inches high; sugar bowl with cover 7 inches wide by 8 1/2 inches high; teapot 10 inches over spout and handle by 9 inches high; creamer 5 1/4 inches wide by 5 inches high; coffee pot 9 inches over spout and handle by 10 1/2 inches high; and kettle on stand 9 inches wide over handle and spout. Elaborate, indecipherable JOA, JWK (?) and "1905" monogram. Marked as illustrated in photo.

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CHURCH CHALICE ECCLESIASTICAL

An exceeding rare circa 1875 sterling silver Church chalice by Peter L. Krider, of Philadelphia, and retailed by Robinson Clark & Biddle, with a stepped up base and central column supporting a large cup. the interior of the cup is gilded. SEE BELOW FOR EXPLANATION OF INSCRIPTION. Dimensions: 8 inches tall 4 1/8 inches diameter at top of cup. Weight 20 ozs. Marked as illustrated in photo.

The cup has the following engraved dedication/monogram: Emily Root / Maggie Reedes / 1875 / "In the midst of life, we are in death." and on the opposite side of the dedication/monogram there is an engraved cross.

"In the midst of life we are in death" is meant to mean that death is part of life. It is from the Book of Common Prayer, The Burial of the Dead, First Anthem. It was often used on the tombstones of children and those individuals that died suddenly.

The kneeling woman resembles a skull when seen from a distance, reflecting that in the midst of life, we are in Death.

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