Hi here at Ganon's Antiques and Art in Fort Myers, Florida we're always looking for the best sterling silver. Whatever it is, better it is, the more excited we get about it. Today I'd like to show you something we just got in that was passed down through a family and it's in the form of a teapot. What's particularly nice about this is that it is American and it's very early. It's actually coin silver which was the silver that they used to melt the early coins. At some point the government didn't want everybody to melt coins so then they decided to make a new standard which was called sterling silver. They made that standard just a teensy bit more than the coins so the coins couldn't be melted to be called sterling and they would have to use a pure sterling silver. So this is the early coin silver and the maker John Jones was actually working in the late 1700s, 1782s. It's actually in the revolutionary times which is I think really amazing. This is a beautiful piece of early American coin silver. So if you look at it a little closer you'll see that it's simple in design and shape and yet it's very, very elegant and stately. It is both engraved and has repusay work. So it's been beaten out from the inside and it's also been chiseled away which would be the chasing. You can't really see it but if you were up close and you were looking inside you'd be able to see some parts where it was chiseled and some parts where it was actually beaten out so it gives a very three dimensional design and then gives lots of texture. It's also was hand hammered when it was created. This was not machine creator, it was hand hammered and you particularly when you open it up you can see all the little hand hammered marks that when it's upon the outside where it's polished it's not so visible. It's a touch. If you have sterling silver that you're looking to sell we are always looking to buy something really nice and if you'd like to buy something or you could check our website, Ganonzantiks.com. You can subscribe to our YouTube channel and you'll see more interesting things that come in as they come in or best of all you can take a vacation to Southwest Florida, enjoy fun in the sun and buy beautiful entrances.