SILVER PLATE CREAMER FROM GULF, MOBILE & OHIO RAILROAD

SILVER PLATE CREAMER FROM GULF, MOBILE & OHIO RAILROAD

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Item Code: 2025-1574

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Vintage silver-plated teapot from the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Lines. The creamer measures approximately 4.5" tall and 4.5" from handle to spout. It is unpolished and wears a dark tarnish overall. Marked under the base, G, M & O / International Silver Co. / Silver Soldered / 05079 / 8 oz.” There are additional touch marks, and the assembly number “11” appears on the base and inside the lid.

The Gulf, Mobile & Ohio was a Class I railroad in the central United States whose primary routes extended from Mobile, Alabama, and New Orleans, Louisiana, to St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri, as well as Chicago, Illinois. From its two parallel lines through eastern Mississippi, the GM&O also served Montgomery and Birmingham, Alabama, as well as Memphis, Tennessee. The railroad was created as the reorganization of the New Orleans, Mobile and Chicago Railroad in 1917. The GM&O was incorporated in 1938 to merge the Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad and the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, which was accomplished in 1940. The GM&O survived until the 1970s when it was merged with other companies.

In the days of railroad travel, dining cars were advertised as being fancier than New York City hotels. Travelers were often invited to choose among five-course meals with dozens of options. Dining cars of many companies often operated at a loss because of their extravagance, but they were seen as necessary part of turning train travel into a “Grand Tour” experience. Not surprisingly, the silverware used in these dining rooms was only the finest. Many train companies commissioned some of the top silver manufacturers to produce their flatware, including International Silver Company, Meriden Britannia, Smith Silversmiths, Gorham Manufacturing, and Reed and Barton. Some railroads had their own lines of flatware and hollowware, though more often than not they just ordered what the manufacturers produced for fancy hotels and stamped their logos on them.

An interesting piece of American railroad history.  [jet][ph:L]

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