Antebellum New Orleans Coin Silver Mug
Antebellum New Orleans Coin Silver Mug
1851-1852, by Terfloth & Kuchler, the thistle-form body decorated with repousse acanthus banding below an oval cartouche with floral and engraved panel mantling, with crested "S"-scroll handle and domed foot.
h. 4-3/8", dia. 3-1/2", l. 4-3/4"; 4.55 t. oz.
Notes: The short-lived silversmithing firm of Terfloth and Kuchler was active in New Orleans from 1859 to 1861, the partnership of German immigrants Bernard Terfloth (1829-aft. 1905) and Christopf Christian Kuchler (1820-1894), at 115 Customhouse (now Iberville, between Bourbon and Royal). Terfloth was evidently trained as a jeweler, and Kuchler became a master goldsmith in his native Hesse in 1846. Their work was of the highest quality, but the business quickly dissolved. Terfloth would spend the Civil War as a supplier of sabres, canteens and straps to the Confederate Army, and later took out several mechanical patents (not the least of which was a propelling system for the New Orleans streetcars). Kuchler spent the war in San Francisco, briefly returning to New Orleans in 1867 before going back overseas to Germany. He returned to New Orleans by 1870, though, working first in a brief partnership with silversmith August Jansen (1834-1898) before joining the firm of Constant H. Zimmerman (1838-1875) as the foreman of Zimmerman's small silver manufactory. Kuchler returned permanently to his native Hesse in 1873, however, where he became a manufacturer of sewing machines and died there in 1894. Terfloth traveled the United States after the war, living briefly in Colorado and Idaho and returning occasionally to New Orleans (no doubt to the exasperation of his estranged wife, Elizabeth Karbon (ca. 1839-1918)). He was in Manhattan in 1900 and finally appears in the 1905 Watervliet, New York census, age 77, as an "inventor"; he was very possibly associated with the nearby Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After that, however, he drops from the record entirely and his ultimate fate is unknown.
Dimensions: 3.5 x 4.375 x 4.75 in
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Antebellum New Orleans Coin Silver Mug
1851-1852, by Terfloth & Kuchler, the thistle-form body decorated with repousse acanthus banding below an oval cartouche with floral and engraved panel mantling, with crested "S"-scroll handle and domed foot.
h. 4-3/8", dia. 3-1/2", l. 4-3/4"; 4.55 t. oz.
Notes: The short-lived silversmithing firm of Terfloth and Kuchler was active in New Orleans from 1859 to 1861, the partnership of German immigrants Bernard Terfloth (1829-aft. 1905) and Christopf Christian Kuchler (1820-1894), at 115 Customhouse (now Iberville, between Bourbon and Royal). Terfloth was evidently trained as a jeweler, and Kuchler became a master goldsmith in his native Hesse in 1846. Their work was of the highest quality, but the business quickly dissolved. Terfloth would spend the Civil War as a supplier of sabres, canteens and straps to the Confederate Army, and later took out several mechanical patents (not the least of which was a propelling system for the New Orleans streetcars). Kuchler spent the war in San Francisco, briefly returning to New Orleans in 1867 before going back overseas to Germany. He returned to New Orleans by 1870, though, working first in a brief partnership with silversmith August Jansen (1834-1898) before joining the firm of Constant H. Zimmerman (1838-1875) as the foreman of Zimmerman's small silver manufactory. Kuchler returned permanently to his native Hesse in 1873, however, where he became a manufacturer of sewing machines and died there in 1894. Terfloth traveled the United States after the war, living briefly in Colorado and Idaho and returning occasionally to New Orleans (no doubt to the exasperation of his estranged wife, Elizabeth Karbon (ca. 1839-1918)). He was in Manhattan in 1900 and finally appears in the 1905 Watervliet, New York census, age 77, as an "inventor"; he was very possibly associated with the nearby Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After that, however, he drops from the record entirely and his ultimate fate is unknown.
Dimensions: 3.5 x 4.375 x 4.75 in
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