Darling! NOS NIB Sweet 1927 LULLABY sterling silver BABY JUICE CUP - NO MONOS!

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o. Internationals, we use Ebay Global Shipping only. Many of our items are from an old Yankee New England Maine Family estate --Hope you find something you can treasure.  Pictures are worth 1,000 words, so we let our photos do the talking. Be aware that camera flash and your color monitor can cause color difference –-
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RARE!! Excellent Estate Condition,
date
1927 --- New Old Stock, New in Original Box
1927 LULLABY BABY JUICE CUP
NO MONOS!
sterling silver
This darling juice cup is a rarity... Lullaby made many baby cups of typical size, but this is a tiny Originally was destined for hand engraving AKS, but never happened-- No monograms means you can add yours!
Baby cups were meant to introduce tykes to drinking their milk on their own...  But juice was limited, so watered apple or orange juice would have been just a taste or two for the Vitamin C.  Thus juice cups were proportionally smaller than milk cups.
So itty cute it could easily sit with dolls!!  Appc 1.25" x 1.5"
Comes in its original box as found.  Hallmarked for Lullaby Sterling (by Alvin -- See info below)
We are guessing the weight is appx 18g-20g based on our OLD postal scale, which offers NO accuracy.  So please note you will be bidding/buying "approximately" 18g-20g: the scale fluctuated, so this is a Plus/Minus weight.  No guarantees!
From a dear aunt's estate, who loved silver and invested in many many pieces (then new and now vintage!) plus see our other listings for more sterling rings, bracelets, brooches, and sterling charms + charm bracelets from her gift shop inventory, which she owned in the Fifties-Sixties in Michigan
See our other listings for other great vintage bangles!!
Lullaby by Alvin, plus Company History:
Founded in 1886 as Alvin Mfg Co. in Irvington NJ by William Haywood Jamoneau (1850s-1928).  Circa 1893, the firm became Alvin-Beiderhase Co when George Beiderhase (1857-1927) became partner, and they moved to Sag Harbor, Long Island NY.  Jamoneau was born in England in the 1850s, son of Birmingham silversmith Alvin Jamoneau.  His family emigrated to the US in the 1860s to New Jersey where Wm H. continued silversmithing. Partner George was the son of a German immigrant, Bernard Beiderhase, a silversmith. Son learned the trade from father, as well as he offered expertise in business affairs that boosted sales, controlled company record keeping, and strategized merchandise.  Renowned for some of
today’s rarest original sterling patterns --
Avila (1868), French Scroll (1870s), Marie Antoinette (1890-1910), Marsailles (1890), Monterey (1895), and Cambridge (1899) --
(some still made today, but as repros)...Alvin’s early pieces are desirable as rarities because of the melting of pre-WW1 silver for the war effort.
In 1886 Alvin patented a process for depositing pure silver on metallic and non-metallic surfaces. In this process, the item was first coated with silver, then artists cut away silver to expose the base and create a design.  As lauded in the 1893 “Jewelers’ Circular” trade publication:
"Undoubtedly the most novel and at the same time artistic work turned out by this company [Alvin] is that known as Electro-Deposit goods. This class of work was invented and brought to a state of commercial success by this firm. It is applied to decanters, perfume and toilet bottles, carafes, claret pitchers, flasks, perfume atomizers, and in fact an almost endless variety of articles of crystal glass.
"The process is guarded as a trade secret; but briefly it may be said, that the article to be silvered is rendered metallic by a coating of silver deposited on the glass surface by the electric current. When this operation is successfully completed, the article is shown completely encased in its covering of pure silver. The article is then taken in hand by skillful artisans who trace the most intricate designs on the silver surface. The designs are of a continuous character and the intervening spaces are by another process cut away or removed, so as to expose the crystal surface in the interstices of the design. The article is then passed to the engraver, who richly embellishes the remaining surface. The engraved surface is then highly polished."
Alvin-Beiderhase Co were honored to be chosen as Official makers of World’s Fair Souvenir Spoons for the 1893-94 Chicago Columbian Exposition.  In 1897, they were purchased in full by Joseph D. (Dupery) Fahys (1855-1932) Company, manufacturers of watch casings, and operated under their A-B Co name as a subsidiary company.  Incidentally, Jamoneau went on to open and operate Academy Inc with sons Wm H. II, Leslie, and Rosslyn, makers of perhaps parquet flooring, as near as research reveals.
During their time making flatware, Alvin intentionally focused on historical and colonial patterns in direct competition with Gorham, so it is ironic they ended up as a subsidiary of Gorham.
From 1919 to 1927, the company operated under Alvin Silver Co. on Maiden Lane in NYC, particularly focusing on their patented silverplated flatware in 1925.  Mr. Fahys’s declining health led to the sale of Alvin, including all its dies and silver patterns, to Gorham of Providence RI, leading silversmiths to this day.  Alvin moved to Providence, operating as a division of Gorham under the name Alvin Corp.  One of the first major lines under Alvin at Gorham was Lullaby baby hollowware, marked simply “Lullaby Sterling” to attract a new market of customers. Searching on Alvin patterns often shows dates in the 1950s+  These are reproductions of the old dies, still lovely silverware, but the originals from 19C Alvin are highly collectable.
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We'd love to see someone adopt and enjoy!
We are a smoke-free household with 2 hypoallergenic dogs (Standard Poodles) – We have 5-10 day handling for health reasons, but if you need sooner LET US KNOW right away, we will do our best to accommodate if we can
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Some General Info re: Silver charms and bracelets in our listings
--FYI: it is not unusual for sterling charms to be unmarked from this era: many charms came unmarked on display sales cards that had the maker and metal info; as well as jewelry items under a certain weight did not have to be hallmarked.
--FYI: Rhodium is in the Platinum family of metals.
It was often used in the 50s-70s to plate sterling silver to avoid tarnishing,
In the Rhodium plating process, 925 Sterling Silver is given a nickel underplate prior to Rhodium plating. The nickel is magnetic and causes the magnetic attraction.
--FYI: Sterling 925 or Euro Silver 800, 835, 900 - vintage European silver is highly collectible.
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"Mr. Owl ate my metal worm."
"Was it a car or a cat I saw?"
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