McCormick Restaurant Service Teapot

Description: **found item in a McCormick collector book from 2001, est value then was $850.00** **Per email from Everson Hall from the Hall China Company: This is an advertising piece The Hall China Co. made in the 1950's. McCormick was a tea distributor who placed its name on teapots made by Bennett Pottery and Hall China Company. I have a McCormick restaurant style teapot. I called McCormick and was told that it was distributed to restaurants for advertisement purposes. I think the number is #5060 and was manufactured prior to 1972. It is a commercial only piece and measures aprox 12" high and 12" wide. There is no spigot on it; I have seen some that were modified, this one is original.It is in excellent condition with the only flaws being on the base rim on the inside which is not visible with the lid in place. It is dark brown in color and has the Mc with McCormick written under it logo on the front and the back. If your teapot backstamp has a simple circle with the words "Hall China," sometimes with the addition of "Made in U.S.A." between "Hall" and "China," it dates from the 1920s. If the mark is a plain circle with the word "Hall" in the middle, your teapot dates from the 1930s to the 1970s. This is the most common mark found on collectible Hall china today. Read more: How to Date Hall Teapots | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_5728406_date-hall-teapots.html#ixzz1CngjTxuz The most commonly found mark. Used from October 1930 until the early 1970s. The words "Made in USA" or a pattern name may be stamped below.http://www.hallchinacollectors.com/_sgg/m2m2_1.htm The Hall China CompanyFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hall_China_Company McCormick made no teapots; the company was a tea distributor. The teapots bearing its name were made by two different companies, Hall and Bennett, of which Hall, for some reason, is by far the better known. The infuser teapot was, in fact, developed by the Bennett pottery in Baltimore, located a few blocks east of where the headquarters of McCormick & Company was then situated. In this article, we compare the products of the two factories and restore the Edwin Bennett Pottery Co. to its rightful place in the history of the McCormick teapot. A bit of historyThe story begins in1889, when Willoughby McCormick, with three assistants, began producing fruit syrups, fruit juices and flavoring extracts in the basement of his Baltimore home. Originally a door-to-door sales operation, the enterprise grew rapidly, adding spices, drug supplies, insect powders and tea to its lines. The Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 destroyed the company’s building and records, but McCormick quickly rebounded. “The House of Flavor,” as the company came to be known, took a leading role in the tea industry when, in 1910, it began packaging the precious leaves in little gauze bags, a relatively new marketing approach. The public loved the ease with which tea could be brewed using this method, and McCormick quickly became one of the largest tea distributors in the country. As the business expanded and became increasingly competitive in the marketplace, the company decided to reward distributors with the gift of teapots as sales incentives. To guarantee the number of pots necessary, McCormick commissioned several potteries to make them, beginning with European firms, and later, with the onset of World War I, American ones. In 1916, Hall China Company contracted to make three distinct designs for McCormick: the Boston two-cup pot, the French 10-ounce pot and the New York 12-cup pot. None of these teapots was marked in a distinctive manner, nor were they exclusive to McCormick. Furthermore, none of them was of the infuser style that later became known as a “McCormick teapot.” In 1921, the company moved its headquarters to a location bordering the west side of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. At about the same time, McCormick entered into a contractual relationship with a local firm, the Edwin Bennett Pottery Co., to design and produce teapots. Edwin Bennett had emigrated from Derbyshire, England, in 1841 to work in his brother’s pottery shop in East Liverpool, Ohio. He moved to Baltimore in 1845 and began making his own wares in 1847. Four years later, this tea-drinking Englishman established himself in the world of pottery when he introduced “Rebekah at the Well” teapots. Until 1870, the company produced mainly stoneware, yellowware and Rockinghamware, but it soon expanded its lines to include a wide range of ceramics. Posted with eBay Mobile

Price: 899 USD

Location: New Lenox, Illinois

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