Vintage (1950s) Collectible English Picquot Ware Magnalium Teapot (10”/26cm, 800g).

Marvellous teapot. Obviously not new and over 70 years old but In lovely condition for its age. There are some minor surface friction marks which you’d expect after so many years but these are commensurate with age. Please browse all 12 sets of photographs attached for size, weight and condition as they are self explanatory.

Picquot ware is mid-century designed, collectible tableware made of a magnesium-aluminium alloy that they named 'Magnalium' in production in the same Northampton factory (Burrage & Boyd from 1947 until 1980. The factory also made vacuum cleaners.

The handles of the teapots, coffee pots and kettles are made of the wood of sycamore trees. The pieces are mostly cast as a single piece, and the solid construction is efficient at retaining heat.

The teapot / kettle was designed in 1938 by Jean Picquot and was chosen for the “Britain Can Make It” Exhibition in London which ran at the Victoria & Albert Museum for 14 weeks in the autumn of 1946.

Magnalium is an aluminium alloy with 5% magnesium and 95% aluminum. Although they are generally more expensive than aluminium, the high strength, low density, and greater workability of alloys with low amounts of magnesium leads to their use in aircraft and automobile parts.