Metals
Jehiel Johnson (Maker)
United States, North America
1815-1825
Pewter
Cast
1953.0024
Object Number1953.0024 |
Plate
Metals
Gift of Henry Francis du Pont
Jehiel Johnson (Maker)
1784/85-July 1833
Jehiel Johnson was probably apprenticed to William Danforth in 1798-1805. Johnson seems to have made a partnership arrangement with Jacob Eggleston upon the completion of his apprenticeship. When Eggleston moved to Fayetteville, North Carolina, Johnson ran the Connecticiut shop. Eggleston died in 1813 at which time Johnson paid for pewter left by Eggleston in Connecticut. Without a partner and perhaps insufficuent funds to outfit a shop, Johnson sold groceries with his brother in Middletown until September 1815. The formation of Johnson, Hall and Co. was announced in the Middlesex Gazette in September, 15, 1815. Two years later their advertisement indicated the firm sold tinware, pewter, and block tin articles. This seems to have been a sale office with no product being produced. They bought goods from Samuel Danforth for re-sale. The firm of Johnson, Hall and Co. also appeared in the Fayetteville, North Carolina newspaper indicating that they were selling in both locations. Early in 1817 Johnson left the firm to join William Nott and Samuel Babcock in a venture that involved pewter. In 1818 Johnson and Nott purchased property in Fayetteville. The Middlesex Gazette in July 1819 announced that the Johnson-Nott partnership was dissolved. Johnson and his family are listed in the 1820 census for Middletown, Connecticut (Thomas, p.159-161).
For more on Jehiel Johnson's marks, see C. Jordan Thorn, Handbook of American Silver and Pewter Marks (1949), p.262; Carl Jacobs, Guide to American Pewter (1957), p.114; Ebert, Collecting American Pewter (1973), p.134; and Montgomery, History of American Pewter (1973), p.223. See also John Carl Thomas, Connecticut Pewter and Pewterers (1976), p.159-161 and Laughlin, Pewter in America (1981), vol.1, p.133-134.
United States, North America
The creation place is Middletown, Connecticut or Fayetteville, North Carolina.
1815-1825
1. Mark; Underside, center, left; "J" and "J." flanking a shield, with an eagle, within a circle, stamped
2. Mark; Underside, center, right; "J" to the left of a shield, with an eagle, within a circle, stamped
Pewter
Cast
0.675 (H) , 7.875 (Diam)
1.715 (H) , 20.003 (Diam)
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