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Teapot, gift of
the Duke and Duchess of York
18th c., English
An antique english Eighteenth Century silver teapot with an ivery handle which rotted from repeated washing in a dishwasher ­ a serious abuse of a fine object.
A handyman, familiar with the original handle, carved a similar one in soft wood which deteriorated over the years, but was intact enough to use, with additional research, as the design source for this newly carved handle in legal ivory.

This is the ivory cutout from the outline of the new teapot handle. You can see the male ferrule shapes at the ends, which will be shaped to fit into the female ferrules on the teapot, and locked in place with silver cross pins.

The new handle cut out and ready to be sculpted.
Here is the newly sculpted and polished ivory handle with the ferrules precisely shaped to fit the teapot ferrules. Here also are the silver cross pins which have been pre-cut and fit, ready for installation

The new handle, complete and fitted, with new pins, ready to be inserted into the pot's ferrules.
These are profile and top views of the finished teapot with the new ivory handle snugly attached. The pot itself is now freshly polished, with small dents removed.

The completed pot and handle. Side and top views.
This is a macrophotograph of the pot's bottom center, with the engraved inscription that commemorates it a a gift from Their R.H. the Duke & Duchess of York to J.H.C. Silvestre. The engraving is darkened with liver of sulphur to emphasize it.

Detail of the base inscription, "Their R.H. the Duke & Duchess of York. to J.H.C. Silvestre."

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