Exceptional Early 19th C. Measure
Only the second American measure of this vintage I‘ve ever owned. The first was a gunpowder measure from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; this ultra rare piece is an American spirit measure. Constructed of heavy rolled copper without an inward taper toward the lip, the seams are dovetailed and brazed, the bottom is hammer formed and domed, the lips of both spout and measure are rolled over large gauge wire and it is signed with the initials “N.S.”, almost certainly those of an unidentified weights and measures sealer. 5”H. The tubular rolled, soldered and riveted handle is characteristic of earlier metal work and an identical handle appears on a Pennsylvania measure marked 1785, p. 127 of Henry Kauffman’s American Copper and Brass.
$1,500
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