An Egoist Coffee Pot In Silver, Province (france), Restoration Period

-  A silver coffee pot
• Hammered, chiseled silver, blackened bis handle
• Undetermined master silversmith
• Province (France), 1819-1838
• Heights: 75 mm (body) & 105 mm (at the base); diameters: 72 mm (at the base) & 67 mm ; weight: 183g (gross)
• Excellent condition
•  A marabout coffee pot in silver from the french Restoration period. The slightly truncated body rests on its base. The ogee lid bordered by a net is removable, with a terrace in cast silver with channel leaves topped with a seed. The spout is straight ending in a molding; the handle, riveted, is a blackened turned wood.
• Hallmarks: Master silversmith (none); Title: head of Socrates turned to the left in a truncated oval frame with the number 2 at the bottom right, for the 2nd title of 800 thousandths of the province from August 16, 1819 to May 9, 1838; Guarantee: in an oval, a head of Hercules surrounded by the numbers 4 and (?), large guarantee for the offices of the departments from August 16, 1819 to May 9, 1838: Digne (4), Saint-Etienne (40), Le Puy-en-Velay (41), Nantes (42), Orléans (43), Cahors (44), Agen (45), Mende (46), Angers (47), Saint-Lô (48), Valognes (49). The illegible second number does not allow us to define one of its possibilities.