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Elfie

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(Finnish?) Copper Vessels (teapots, etc) - Need help identifying!
« on: June 06, 2013, 04:54:05 pm »
Hi there!

Recently my family inherited some copper pieces. I don't know much about their history except that at least one (probably more) had been given to my great-grandfather in Minnesota by Finnish immigrants as payment for legal services (probably in the 1920's).

Any info anyone might have on what some of these pieces are, or where they might originate from, would be very much appreciated! Most have no identifying markings at all on them (aside from the patterns on a few)

Let me know if I need to include better pictures/more info. The bottom of the "fancy teapot" in the second image says "TAPTOU[illegible letters] BROS TRIPOLI". One of the tea pots appears to have some kind of bone as a lid handle.
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Elfie

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Re: (Finnish?) Copper Vessels (teapots, etc) - Need help identifying!
« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2013, 04:57:28 pm »
I should mention that I think the "mug" on the far right on the first picture is a more modern (?) piece. It says "Pims No. 1 Cup" on the front, and the bottom say Ozeline's Los Angeles.
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Re: (Finnish?) Copper Vessels (teapots, etc) - Need help identifying!
« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2013, 08:20:45 pm »
Could we see the 2 tea kettles in the back a little better? They actually look like Scandinavian origin.
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Re: (Finnish?) Copper Vessels (teapots, etc) - Need help identifying!
« Reply #3 on: June 06, 2013, 08:52:34 pm »
Last pic says 1 gill !! Had to look and its a British measurement that was used in pubs !! 1 gill=5 fl. ounces or 1/4 pint !!
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Elfie

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Re: (Finnish?) Copper Vessels (teapots, etc) - Need help identifying!
« Reply #4 on: June 06, 2013, 09:09:32 pm »
Okay, after doing some digging, I figured out that the fancy, taller "teapot" is a Turkish Coffee pot, and the little "ladle" with the long handle is used to make Turkish coffee. Who knew...

I also think the little lidless pot with the handle is perhaps a Scandinavian/Swedish pot/cooking pot.

Here are some closeups of the two tea kettles. The second one seems a bit more crudely-made than the first.
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Re: (Finnish?) Copper Vessels (teapots, etc) - Need help identifying!
« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2013, 05:01:19 am »
Tripoli is in North Africa.
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Re: (Finnish?) Copper Vessels (teapots, etc) - Need help identifying!
« Reply #6 on: June 07, 2013, 06:20:03 am »
Quote from: Elfie on June 06, 2013, 04:57:28 pm
I should mention that I think the "mug" on the far right on the first picture is a more modern (?) piece. It says "Pims No. 1 Cup" on the front, and the bottom say Ozeline's Los Angeles.
Pimms No 1 cup....is an alcoholic drink..see link...as for the mug being "modern"....it may not be as modern as you think....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimm%27s
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