ANTIQUE 1890-1912 STERLING TEAPOT BY HERBERT LAMBERT COVENTRY ST. LONDON

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ANTIQUE 1890-1912 STERLING TEAPOT BY HERBERT LAMBERT COVENTRY ST. LONDON:
$550.00

ANTIQUE 1890-1912 STERLING TEAPOT BY HERBERT LAMBERT COVENTRY ST. LONDON The business was founded by Francis Lambert in the early nineteenth century and became one of the most important retailers of reproduction as well as genuine antique plate. Lambert entered the service of Clark of Exeter Change in the Strand where he dealt in cutlery, bronzes, clock\'s, watches, jewellery, and silver goods. In 1803 he opened a jewellery shop but he also manufactured silver plate items. Soon after William Rawlings was taken as a manager of the shop in 1819 the firm was known as \"Lambert & Rawlings\" Francis Lambert died in 1841 but the business was continued by William Rawlings until his retirement in 1861. After this date the firm was renamed Lambert and Company when the running of the Company fell to Francis Lambert\'s two sons Francis (junior) and George.They exhibited at the Great Exhibition in 1851 and secured themselves an Exhibition Prize Medal for Lambert. Among the items they exhibited were two huge partly gilt and chased wine Flagons, one of which was acquired by the new Museum of Manufacturers, ancestor of the Victoria and Albert Museum.By 1897 the firm is listed as goldsmiths, jewellers, silversmiths, diamond and pearl merchants. George Lambert who had been Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths Company died in 1901. The company was then run by his nephews the sons of Francis (Junior) Herbert Charles Lambert and Ernest Dechemont Lambert died in 1912. The business was closed in 1916 when it was absorbed by Harman & Co Ltd of 177 New Bond Street, under the name of Harman and Lambert where it traded until c.1970. AS YOU CAN SEE THE TOUCH MARKS ON THE LID AS ON THE SIDE OF THE TEA POT AND ON THE BOTTOM the total weight is 18.3oz.