ANTIQUE/VINTAGE SILVER PLATED TEAPOT E.H. PARKIN & CO 10 LOBED GOURD ACORN FINIAL and FOOTED, (with bone Ferrells to prevent the handle getting too hot to hold.)

This listing is for a most delightful teapot, a centrepiece to your shelf for eye catching appeal. The silver plate is in fantastic condition without damage dents or other defect. It must have been kept pristinely for show behind glass. It looks as it if has had very little use. The hinge is in immaculate condition as are the bone Ferrells.

The 10 lobed body catches light and reflects light. The lid is similarly lobed and is completed with an acorn finial bedded on a leaf. It has four feet with rapouse flower and acorn detail.

Made in Sheffield dates it to after 1921….

MEASUREMENTS: Length 11 1/2” x 6 1/2” wide and 6” in height.

CONDITION: Immaculate indented excellent condition with little sign of use, and no loss or tarnish to the silver plate.

RESEARCH NOTES:

E. H. PARKIN & COMPANY LTD

Edward Hugh Parkin (1893-1963) was born in Sheffield, the son of Edward Oswald Parkin and his wife, Elizabeth Jane. His father was a silver and electro-plate engraver, who later became a photographer. He left £574 on his death in 1910. His son, Edward, began working as a silver warehouseman. Later sources stated that he began his career in Scotland Street as an apprentice at Cornwall Works of R. Richardson.

After army service in France during the First World War, in 1919 Parkin started his own business in Brookhill. In 1932, after Richardson ceased trading, Parkin occupied Cornwall Works. E. H. Parkin & Co specialised in electro-plate and silver holloware. The factory produced military components during the Second World War. After an air raid, in 1946 Parkin rebuilt the factory and it became a limited company. In 1952, it took over the silverware business of Land’s. By 1960, Parkin’s apparently employed over 100.

Edward H. Parkin, of Swingle Grange, Hollow Meadows, died at The Carlton Hotel, Bournemouth, on 12 October 1963, aged 70. A Freeman of the Company of Cutlers and a Freemason, his funeral was at Sheffield Cathedral. He left £33,408. His sons, Alan Hugh and John Edward, succeeded him. In 1977, E. H. Parkin moved to Cornwall Works, Bowling Green Street (Quality, May/June 1977). Alan’s son, Peter, had been introduced to the business. ‘CAMEO’ featured as a trade mark. The name ‘Parkin Silversmiths Ltd’ was later owned by British Silverware Ltd.

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