HOHNECKER'S

HOHNECKER'S. In 2010 a local retailer in Dubuque of gifts. Hohnecker's is the successor of the C. H. LITTLE, BRUCE AND COMPANY which became the BECKER-HAZLETON COMPANY. A local glassware firm in Dubuque, Little, Bruce and Company was the recipient in 1885 of a duplicate of this teapot. Alfred Meakim, a potter from Tunstall, England, made the original piece in the early 1880s along with about twelve similar team and coffee pots. He presented them to leading crockery jobbers--including Little, Bruce and Company--throughout the United States. Artists hired by the Tunstall factory hand painted the pots. The artist for this particular example was A. Bourne. In 2010 the pot is believed to be one of only two still in existence.

In 1959 when G.J. Hohnecker 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. The teapot was adopted as the company logo in 1985--one hundred years after the original was made.