Comprehensive silver plate tableware catalog with 117 mounted albumen prints

New York City: Rogers Brothers, ca1875. Edition unknown.. Original publisher's stamped three-quarter leather and green cloth.. Very good; contemporary annotations throughout; one leaf cut down.. 4to, 40 thick card-stock leaves on linen stubs meas. appx. 260 x 204 mm.. Photographs are deep, robust albumen prints mounted both recto and verso. The volume bears the ink stamp of Koch & Bergfeld, Bremen (Germany) on the corner of the front pastedown.

Apparently a unique, first iteration, of an extensive inter-business trade catalog. The Rogers Company catalog are located in OCLC in one 16 page price list without illustration. Romaine adds to this, but shows nothing that approaches the kind of catalog offered here. McKinstry offers nothing from the Winterthur collection. This elaborate photographically illustrated catalog was expensive and time consuming to produce and most likely had a limited distribution to jobbers for the Rogers Co. products. Each item in this catalog has a penned or printed (in the photo) stock number with pricing information (in dollars). The company produced all manner of "electro-silver-plated" tableware; depicted in the photographs. In addition to daily utensils and serving dishes of all kinds (e.g., cut glass cruits) for every form of entertainment there are elaborate decorative centerpieces for table decoration.