Description
I added the picture of the pitcher and the bottom with the marks I have seen these on ebay but the marks are much different and I know the company was sold or merged many of times therfore the different markings but the 5707 and the way the marks are set are unigue from what I have seen. Thank you Jim
Category
Silver and Silver Overlay
Medium
Silver plated or EP i have read due to the fact of the age and that there is no marks like EPNS OR EP but the law to have those marks put on came later in The USA then in England or Europe.
Distinguishing marks
FB Rogers 1883 silver company. The company was sold in 1886 and therefore is marked 1883Fb Rogers to 1886. which must mean my piece was made between 1883 and 1886 with crown on top and number 5707
Condition
Excellent
Size and dimensions of this item
10' about 2 quarts
Date Period
1883
Weight
1lb
History
Not sure I found a estate sale and thought it look nice if cleaned up so i did and I thought by the markings it might have some value.
For Sale?
No
Photos
Re: Fb Rogers silver 1886 with crown number 5707
The smal tea cups are not a set with the pitcher. just look good together if any one wants the tea cups can be sold seperate or together.
Re: Fb Rogers silver 1886 with crown number 5707
The jug does not date from 1883, that's the date the company was founded, as far as I'm aware they are still using that trade mark . As far as value goes, what you paid is about what these go for at auction, for under $20.00.
Re: Fb Rogers silver 1886 with crown number 5707
if you read the articke it has changed hands and that exact trade mark was used from 1883-1886 when th merged with Edmund W. Porter and L.B. West, who incorporated the company and moved manufacturing operations to Taunton, Massachusetts in 1886. The trade mark was changed, For several years, the company became known as West Silver Company, and was producing silver products for the William Rogers Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut.
About 1904, West and Porter retired and sold the company to William Davison, Carleton A. Woodward and H.E. Nearing, who changed the company's name back to F.B. Rogers.
In 1925 the company moved from 31 Winthrop Street to 59 Wales Street. In 1943 it moved to West Water Street,[1] to a site formerly occupied by the Weir Stove Company, who produced Glenwood Ranges.
In 1955, it became a division of the National Silver Company.[2]
The company used many different marks over the years. One of them is a crown with the number 18 at the left and 83 at the right (for 1883).
In 2009 the 414 West Water Street property was demolished by Costello Dismantling
Re: Fb Rogers silver 1883 with crown number 5707
these are FB rOgers as they changed merged or where bought the one on the bottom of that water pitcher was only used for 3 yrs.
F.B. ROGERS SILVER CO.Founded in 1883 at Shellburne Falls, Ma, moved to Taunton in 1886. Before 1896 absorbed West Silver Co. Became a division of National Silver Company (1955) and was bought in 1985 by J.C. Boardman
