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Tom in IL Posts: 5 |
posted 01-03-2000 11:47 PM
  
A friend of mine cane across a silver plated spoon with the words on the back of stem of: R & A BEAUVAIS ST. LOUIS Does anyone have any info on this? Thank you, Tom IP: Logged |
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Brent Posts: 1507 |
posted 01-10-2000 10:06 PM
There is a book on St. Louis silversmiths, which I believe is out-of-print. It was published by the St. Louis Art Museum in 1980. There may be some available on the secdondary market. If not, try a historical society library, or possibly the art museum itself. At any rate, R&A Beauvais are known to be retailers of silverware in St. Louis around 1850. I don't know if they made any silver, or just sold it. Jaccard did manufacture silver in St. Louis, so it is conceivable that others may have also. The 1850 date is just an estimate from Kovel's. They may have been in business for much longer. Hope this helps! Brent IP: Logged |
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Stephen Posts: 625 |
posted 04-04-2003 02:57 AM
Could this be coin silver rather than silverplate? The museum book doesn't even breathe the word silverplate. If a piece isn't marked coin or sterling, the book just labels it "silver". A confusing choice of terms when unexplained, since the term silver is often used and meant to be inclusive of silverplate as well as solid silver. The book does document one teaspoon marked "R. & A. BEAUVAIS (in serrated rectangle) ST. LOUIS (in rectangle)" and dates it to 1847. Unfortunately, no photo of the spoon or the mark, but it does sound like coin silver to me. The book, titled "St. Louis Silversmiths" also states that "Vast research remains to be done to produce the definitive reference on the subject." I agree. IP: Logged |
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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 04-04-2003 09:46 AM
R & A Beauvais may be Renaud Basile (1820-1876) and Augustin Francois (1823-1893), sons of Geminien and Placide (Aubuchon) Beauvais. Both were born in St. Genevieve MO, but spent their lives in St Louis. Their father, one of the wealthiest men in upper Spanish Louisiana, was a blacksmith, gunsmith and "fine metal" worker with a large business among the Indian tribes. He also helped estabish trade lines to Canadian and eastern seaboard manufacturers. There is some indication that his sons continued and expanded the business after his death in 1841, which would jive with the estimated dates of the R & A partnership. IP: Logged |
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