A Very Rare Eagle Wrigglework Tinned Sheet Iron Coffee Pot, Southeastern Pennsylvania, circa 1840

Please note, this lot will be offered without a reserve

Insribed with the initials CML. Together with a Tinned Sheet Iron Coffee Pot, by John B. Ketterer (1796-1864), Bucks County, Pennsylvania, circa 1850 and a Tinned Sheet Iron Coffee Pot, Pennsylvania, circa 1850. 3 pieces.

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A nearly identical coffee pot is in the collection of Winterthur Museum and is discussed in Donald L. Fennimore, Iron at Winterthur (Winterthur, DE: The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc., 2004), pp. 365-70, no.183 and 185.