HOHNECKER'S

HOHNECKER'S. 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 the original of this teapot. Alfred Meakim, a potter from Tunstall, England, made the piece in the early 1880s along with about twelve similar tea and coffee pots. Artists hired by the Tunstall factory hand painted each. The artist for the original of this piece was A. Bourne.

The pots were presented to leading crockery jobbers--including Little, Bruce and Company--throughout the United States. This duplicate was made in 1910. 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, however, 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.