Word: tankards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike the Grand National, which offers a prize of ?7,000 to the winner, the Maryland Hunt rewards its victors with a silver tankard decorated with the coat of arms of Maryland...
That each type of piece had a traditional design of its own, based naturally upon the requirements of its use and its making, is clearly brought out by a "lion" tankard, dated 1674, bearing on its side the arms of the city of London. Except for this engraved work, in which the silversmith presumably had no choice, the body of the article is plain...
...liked bibelots like his small ivory goose ($2.25). Gongs announced dinner even when Mr. Long was alone and his valet played the organ while he sat on Aubusson-tapestried chairs, ate from English china, drank from hand-cut crystal goblets (sold for $280). At large dinners, a silver tankard more than two feet high ($135) decorated the table. A sufferer from asthma, Mr. Long had a mahogany stand on which he kept his atomizer. In the basement he had his own two-chair barber shop. Last thing to be auctioned will be Mr. Long's 70-room house...
Sirs: If I ever looked upon a tough piece of earthenware; a cracked clay tankard, the handle of which is a huge flyswatter intended, presumably, to be an ear, it is the cut of James Montgomery Flagg in the March 21 issue of TIME. Flagg's mug appears as though it had been clawed by a lion, chewed by a bear and laugh-bitten by a hyena, and, if ever kissed, which I doubt, such a favor would be attempted only by a horsefly or a tarantula. This clay model visage looks like...
...private collection of Nicholas Sever, from 1716 to 1826 a tutor at Harvard College, at that time considered a position of great honor, has been loaned by his descendents. It is uncommon in that the 30 or more pieces are still intact, with the exception of a silver twoquart tankard, which is the exact replica of the one which is mentioned in his original inventory. Chafingdishes, candlesticks, salvers, porringers, a teapot, and a pair of salt-cellars complete the collection...