Meriden Silver Plate Company | People | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

The Meriden Silver Plate Co. was founded in 1869 by Charles Casper among other businessmen in Meriden, Connecticut. George R. Curtis was the company's first president. The Meriden Silver Plate Co. was highly successful, receiving a medal for its silver plated wares at the American Institute Fair of New York in 1874. It also received a medal and diploma at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876. In 1898, the Meriden Silver Plate Co. was one of several independent silver companies of New England to form the International Silver Company, which became the world's largest manufacturer of silverware.

We have 15 objects that Meriden Silver Plate Company has been involved with.

A mostly silver-plate cocktail shaker with a U-form dominating the bottom segment, also known as a spun hemisphere, with an angled base prone in an outward direction at the bottom. In an upward direction are two steps inward to a tall cylindrical body resembling a form of a skyscraper with two more steps out and three shallow steps inward leading to a lid with a neck and a red-orange Catalin (polymer) stopper that remains inserted during pouring. The photograph captures the cocktail shaker in a front view against a medium gray background.

A silver-plated butter pat in the shape of an artists palette with brushes extending from the lower right. In the center is a circular section which is decorated with flowers, fish and a fan. In the upper right is a long curling vine with three silver butterflies.

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