Woodward & Grosjean Antique Coin Silver Beaker for Newell Harding, Boston, MA, c. 1850

This sweet little beaker is a great example of early Boston silver with its conical body and conservative form. Applied around the perimeters of the top and base are applied bands that decorate and also strengthen their edges. 

After Obadiah Rich retired about 1848, Woodward & Grosjean became Boston's leading maker of holloware before they moved to New York in 1852. (There, they became Grosjean & Woodward—one of Tiffany & Co's leading early suppliers.)

This rare coin beaker is marked underneath "W&G/ PURE COIN/ Boston" and by the famous Boston retailer "N(ewell) Harding." It measures just shy of 3.25 inches high by 3 inches wide at the top, weighs 3.45 troy ounces, has never been engraved, and is in very good antique condition with an old surface.