This elegant pewter tea pot has very nice features, such as a floral shaped handle on the lid and decorative spout and handle. Measures 8” tall to top of handle x 4 ½” in circumference at the base. Pewter has darkened with age and shows scattered spotting.

Note found inside reads, “Mrs. Samuel Gummere, 132 Elm St. Worcester, This tea pot was left to my grandmother Susan E. Comfort by her ancestor Hanna Bonnell, sister of my great, great grandmother. On a card was written, ‘For Susan E. Comfort - William Penn’s’. It probably came from Penn’s manor house- Pennsylvania. Margery T. Gummere”. Pennsbury Manor, near Philadelphia, was the colonial estate of William Penn, founder and proprietor of the Colony of Pennsylvania, who lived there from 1683 to 1701. While we cannot make a direct connection of how the people mentioned in this note were related to Penn, or prove that the tea pot belonged to Penn, these families are all in the Philadelphia area and there is much information on Find A Grave to research and possibly make that connection.    [sl]

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