A Set Of Eight American Silver Julep Cups, Richard Ewing Smith, Louisville, KY, circa 1835

all tapered cylindrical with applied reeded rims and base bands, engraved with script initial E

a little wear to engraved initial, light scratches and minor dings from use, one with surface disruption to interior (flaw from time of construction), overall good condition
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Richard Ewing Smith born in Windsor VT. in 1800, arrived in Kentucky in 1821 and opened a jewelry store on Main Street, Louisville. He had brief partnerships, first with a Mr. Grant 1827-31 and second with John Kitts in 1844 which lasted a year. He died in Paducah in 1849

See Marquis Boultinghouse, Silversmiths of Kentucky, 1785-1900