antique tea/coffee pot? cecileware engraved HUYLER

[ajaris]

Just bought an old tea/coffee pot . bottom says cecileware and it is engraved "HUYLER"..is it worth any money.. i thought it was cute anyways

[bigwull]

found this....its similar...

http://www.etsy.com/listing/114739314/vintage-hotel-tea-pot-cecilware

[mart]

Is it metal or pottery ??  Can you take a pic of the bottom marking and of the engraving ??

[ajaris]

metal..heavy

[Ipcress]

I wonder if it's a chocolate pot and has been engraved with the Huyler mark ( cocoa and chocolate company )

[bigwull]

the fact that it has Huyler stamped on the base...could also mean...that was where it came from........i.e.... .Huyler House   Guest Suites,,...on Dewees Island...as Cecilware was used in Hotels

[mart]

That's what I am thinking Wullie !! Just need to see how its done on the pot !!

[KC]

Agree with Mart.  Please post a picture of the markings!  Thanks!

[Rauville]

I think you guys are on the right track in thinking that this is restaurant ware.
The following is from: http://buffaloah.com/a/del/374/huyhist.html

...Huyler’s was also noted for operating several stores as luncheonettes (a trend first noted back in 1908 with the opening of the store at 566 Main Street in Buffalo) and for the “striking” fact that these stores were open to the street, allowing passer-bys to see into the store itself rather than being screened by a display case, creating a display and store in one.[18]
 
During this era in the early half of the 1920s, the stores appear to have begun transitioning from just selling boxed confections to operating more as a luncheonette and restaurant, selling light lunches and food to its patrons in many of its stores. In what appears to be an attempt to rebrand the store, keeping pace with the proliferation of lunch counters in the US during this era, the Huyler’s stores began marketing itself as not “just a tea room, but a regular restaurant – a man’s place.”...
   
 
 
 

[ajaris]

Thanks for all your information. here it's the name engraved.

[bigwull]

if that signature is the same as the choccy people..or of the Hotel....people you will know....now to try and match it....

[Ipcress]

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8479/8201056980_efb31ceeb8_z.jpg



As i thought.

Also a chance it was used in one of their offices.

[mart]

Brownie point Ipcress !!  Bigwull just ain`t giving up !!!

[bigwull]

Brownie point Ipcress !!  Bigwull just ain`t giving up !!!

that,s because i,ve got $450 cheaters...that can see better than your $2  specials.... .....and your older peepers....

[Ipcress]

It's the same name, Wull.