[CarltonHendricks]

Originally Posted by smokelessjoe

Picked up this Tankard with an engraved Baseball scene with batter, catcher, pitcher, shortstop & third basemen. I love the batter with the handle bar mustache! Stamped on the bottom Reed & Barton and has the name Thomas Mason Carpenter engraved on the side.

This thing is not the easiest to photograph & get everything in one pic. Is this something that should be shined up on left alone?

DYNAMITE PIECE!!!! Exceptional treatment by the engraver...a lot of detail...I like the batters striped cap...the encircling ornamentation presents the whole scene really well...having the year 1891 under the name is invaluable...best silver-plate mug I can recall ever...I'm reminded of the locked private rooms Reed and Barton afforded their designers...

http://www.sportsantiques.com/ReedBartonFBBox.htm
THE DESIGNERS
The other most defining and creative division of the production department was the designers who designed the wares. Apparently by 1874 the company became fully aware of the importance of design. On September 4th of that year, a Mr. W. C. Beattie was brought from England, and became Reed and Barton’s first full-time designer. Beattie was the Chief Designer at the time our football box was produced. By 1889 there were twenty-four men working in Reed and Barton’s design department. Between 1874 and 1890, the design department became so highly regarded, that its designers were afforded very special treatment in that every convenience they needed was provided. Even to the extent that each principle designer was provided their own locked room, where they could work uninterrupted from anything that would impede their creativity.