William Gale & Son Sterling Silver Coffee Pot - 23.02 ozt. Two small wood pieces in the handle. Monogrammed "GRC" on one side. Marked on underside. 

Size: 10 1/2 x 5 x 9 in. 

Gross Weight: 23.02 ozt. 

In 1822 the silversmith William Gale (1799-1867) founded a company along with John Stickler in New York City called Gale & Stickler, though the venture was short-lived and most of his collaborations for the next decade lasted only a couple of years. In 1826 he invented a process for making spoons with ornamental patterns by cutting the ornament on rollers, both the upper and the lower rollers being cut with the pattern. This made the production of pattern spoons much less expensive than the former method of hand hammering patterns by the use of dies. In 1833 he formed a partnership with Jacob Wood and Jasper W. Hughes that was his longest-lived, lasting until 1845. At this time his son William Gale Jr. began to apprentice under him, and the two struck out together with Nathaniel Hayden. After Hayden stepped back from his duties at the company the name was changed to William Gale & Son in 1853. William Jr. took over completely in 1866, but frequently sought partners to take over the business side of the company so he could focus on design. In 1872 he sold control of the firm to H.B. Dominick & Leroy B. Haff, who continued to run the company under their own names until 1928 when the business was purchased by Reed & Barton.

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