Description

An Early American Arts and Crafts Sterling Silver Coffee Service, The Kalo Shop,
Park Ridge, Illinois, 1905-1911, comprising a coffee pot with ivory insulators, creamer, open sugar, sugar tongs, oval tray and a plate, each having an applied AP monogram, marked Hand Beaten at Kalo Shops Park Ridge Ills. Sterling; approximate total weight overall 72.25 ozt.
Width of tray 15 1/8 inches.

Property from a Private Collection

Provenance:
Estate of the original owner Adeline Phillipson
Thence by family descent to the present owner

Catalogue Note:
The Kalo Shop was founded by Clara Barck Welles in 1900 and holloware with this mark and from this period is rare (see Sharon S. Darling, Chicago Metalsmiths, pp. 45-55)