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[[Image:jug.jpg|left|thumb|350px|]]HOHNECKER'S. Hohnecker's | [[Image:jug.jpg|left|thumb|350px|]]HOHNECKER'S. Hohnecker's was the successor of a long line of companies including C. H. Little and Company, [[C. H. LITTLE, BRUCE AND COMPANY]], [[BECKER-HAZLETON COMPANY]]. A local glassware firm in Dubuque, Little, Bruce and Company was the recipient in 1885 of this teapot. Alfred Meakim, a potter from Tunstall, England, made the original in the early 1880s followed by about twelve similar tea and coffee pots. This duplicate was made in 1910. Artists hired by the Tunstall factory hand painted each. The artist for the original was A. Bourne. | ||
The pots were presented to leading crockery jobbers--including Little, Bruce and Company--throughout the United States. | The pots were presented to leading crockery jobbers--including Little, Bruce and Company--throughout the United States. In 2010 the pot is believed to be one of only two still in existence. | ||
In 1959 when G.J. Hohnecker located at 5 Jones according to the ''Dubuque City Directory'' purchased the Becker-Hazleton Company the teapot was included in the deal. The colossal pot weighs seventy-five pounds empty and is capable of holding 4,884 cups. It does | In 1959 when G.J. Hohnecker located at 5 Jones according to the ''Dubuque City Directory'' purchased the Becker-Hazleton Company the teapot was included in the deal. The colossal pot weighs seventy-five pounds empty and is capable of holding 4,884 cups. It does have a hollow spout so that it could be put to practical use. The teapot was adopted as the company logo in 1985--one hundred years after the original was made. | ||
The 1989 through 1993 ''Dubuque City Directory'' listed 2200 John F. Kennedy Road. | The 1989 through 1993 ''Dubuque City Directory'' listed 2200 John F. Kennedy Road. | ||
[[Category: Gift Store]] | [[Category: Gift Store]] | ||
Revision as of 21:52, 8 January 2018
HOHNECKER'S. Hohnecker's was the successor of a long line of companies including C. H. Little and Company, C. H. LITTLE, BRUCE AND COMPANY, BECKER-HAZLETON COMPANY. A local glassware firm in Dubuque, Little, Bruce and Company was the recipient in 1885 of this teapot. Alfred Meakim, a potter from Tunstall, England, made the original in the early 1880s followed by about twelve similar tea and coffee pots. This duplicate was made in 1910. Artists hired by the Tunstall factory hand painted each. The artist for the original was A. Bourne.
The pots were presented to leading crockery jobbers--including Little, Bruce and Company--throughout the United States. In 2010 the pot is believed to be one of only two still in existence.
In 1959 when G.J. Hohnecker located at 5 Jones according to the Dubuque City Directory purchased the Becker-Hazleton Company the teapot was included in the deal. The colossal pot weighs seventy-five pounds empty and is capable of holding 4,884 cups. It does have a hollow spout so that it could be put to practical use. The teapot was adopted as the company logo in 1985--one hundred years after the original was made.
The 1989 through 1993 Dubuque City Directory listed 2200 John F. Kennedy Road.