The only American brass tea kettle seen by H.J. Kauffman. The maker has not been identified. It is in perfect condition. Inscription on the front of tea kettle "From Wm. Kee, Esq to James M. Adams, U.S.N."
Provenance
Photographs from the estate of Henry Kauffman. From the James A. Knowles Collectio, The Smithsonian Institution.
Brass furniture pull with close-up of the name of the back of one of the pulls. Very few pulls were marked and the origin of these has not been positively established. A brass founder named S. Parker did work in the Philadelphia area in the eighteenth century. Courtesy of Colonial Williamsburg
