Close-up of handle on copper tea kettle with " Ward, Hartford" stamped on it. Tea Kettle made by James Ward of Hartford, Ct. and in the collection of Wadsworth Atheneum, Connecticut Valley Archive, Hartford, CT.
Provenance
Photographs from the estate of Henry Kauffman. Photograph courtesy of Wadsworth Atheneum, Connecticut Valley Archive.
An extremely rare copper tea kettle, only four inches in diameter. W. Cummings was a coppersmith working in Philadelphia late in the eighteenth century.
Provenance
Photographs from the estate of Henry Kauffman. Courtesy Rockford-Kauffman Museum.