Anyone know?

[JustKeepDigging]

Picked up at garage sale, anyone know what this could be? Seems like it has sterling.

 

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[creskol]

It looks like a silver plated water pitcher used to memorialize or commemorate some event unique to RDH on November 28, 1929.

 

[Tony in SC]

Trophy or some kinda presentation piece?

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

I'm not the drinking aficionado that I used to be these days but my parents use to have one of these in their bar.
I think it's a cocktail shaker. I'm also thinking it's silver plate, due to the silver wearing off at the base.

Dave

 

[Anduril]

It looks like a silver plated water pitcher used to memorialize or commemorate some event unique to RDH on November 28, 1929.

11/28/1929 was a Thursday.
That probably doesn't help very much.

 

[Deep1]

I'm not the drinking aficionado that I used to be these days but my parents use to have one of these in their bar.
I think it's a cocktail shaker. I'm also thinking it's silver plate, due to the silver wearing off at the base.

Dave

You are correct, it is a cocktail shaker.

 

[MAILITY]

You are correct, it is a cocktail shaker.

It looks like a silver plated water pitcher used to FileZilla UC Browser Rufus memorialize or commemorate some event unique to RDH on November 28, 1929.

 

[bradyboy]

where was this found, the region might help
I'm thinking if we can identify the object, we can find out more about the signatures
can you shoe more images of the images around the trophy?
the design has to represent something major as its engraved
brady

 

[bradyboy]

maybe a stupid question,
back in 1929, how did they transfer signatures and etch / engrave on to metal?
brady

 

[Deep1]

maybe a stupid question,
back in 1929, how did they transfer signatures and etch / engrave on to metal?
brady

A very talented person used their own 2 hands to do this back then.
It is still done.
They use engraving tools.
A modern example:
https://www.esslinger.com/knife-gravers-hss-jewelry-tool/
They are writing and drawing on precious metal pieces. sometimes worth millions of $$$$
I couldn't imagine myself doing this, you don't screw up. You don't erase it and start over again.

 

[ToddsPoint]

They probably needed a drink. Didn't the stock market crash at about that time? Gary

 

[JustKeepDigging]

That you guys all for the input. It was found at a garage sale here in Palm
Beach county, south Florida.

 

[JustKeepDigging]

I will upload more pics

 

[JustKeepDigging]

 

[fyrffytr1]

Maybe it was a retirement present and all the employees "signed" it.

 

[DCMatt]

Here's something that might give a clue... I randomly put a couple of the names I could read into a search engine and found the front page of the New York Tribune - September 12, 1922 - has three of the names - Langhorn Gibson, Reginald B. Taylor, and Charles H. Marshall. What are the odds?

Marshall and his wife just returned from Europe.

Gibson married Taylor's sister in Mount Kisco NY.



So, how are they connected to R. D. H.?

 

[DCMatt]

It looks like Reginald Taylor and Langhorne Gibson were at Yale together. These were some rich dudes in the 1920's. Gibson became VP of Life magazine and Taylor was connected to the sugar industry through his grandfather Moses.

So... who is R.D.H.?

I know I won't sleep tonight...

 

[DCMatt]

Taylor was actually in banking.

Charles H. Marshall was an investment broker in NYC. Also went to Yale but 10 years before Taylor and Gibson.

 

[DCMatt]

O M G!

Langhorne Gibson is the son of Charles Dana Gibson - the creator of the iconic "Gibson Girl".

 

[DCMatt]

Any more names you can give me?