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RARE hard to findAMERICAN - FB Rogers Butter Dish with Original Glass Insert Silver Plate model #357Great for outdoor dining breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks.This is a real conversation piece on the dining table !
Marks: Silver on Copper and logo is bordered with 18 83 but I am not sure the age, the style is of the 1880s. Would appreciate any opinion on this model#No Monogram, no dings, Unpolished -- You can polish it up or leave it rustic, I like it as is.
F. B. Rogers Silver Co.was asilversmithingcompany founded inShelburne Falls, Massachusettsin 1883. It was acquired by Edmund W. Porter and L.B. West, who incorporated the company and moved manufacturing operations toTaunton, Massachusettsin 1886. For several years, the company became known as West Silver Company, and was producing silver products for the William Rogers Manufacturing Company ofHartford, Connecticut.About 1904, West and Porter retired and sold the company to William Davison, Carleton A. Woodward and H.E. Nearing, who changed the company\'s name back to F.B. Rogers.
In 1925 the company moved from 31 Winthrop Street to 59 Wales Street. In 1943 it moved to West Water Street,[1]to a site formerly occupied by the Weir Stove Company, who produced Glenwood Ranges. In 1955, it became a division of the National Silver Company.[2]The company used many different marks over the years. One of them is a crown with the number 18 at the left and 83 at the right (for 1883).
