Rogers, Lunt & Bowlen Co. Furniture

"Set of three antique Rogers, Lunt, Bowlen sterling silver salad forks in the Monticello pattern, engraved with a B. “Lunt Silversmiths began its activity and was incorporated in Greenfield, MA in 1902 as Rogers, Lunt & Bowlen Company. The firm succeeded to A. F. Towle & Son Co purchasing its tools, machinery, trademarks and good-will. The business was managed by George E. Rogers (1849-1915, President and major investor), George Colby Lunt (Treasurer and General Manager) and William Caldwell Bowlen (1868-1934, Vice President and supervisor of manufacturing until his retirement in 1929). George C. Lunt and William C. Bowlen were both qualified members of the staff of the defunct Towle's factory. The company would become a celebrated domestic designer and producer of flatware, hollowware, and giftware for generations to come remaining in Lunt family hands for more than 100 years, making it the oldest continuously operating family-owned silver company in the United States. On April 4, 1912 the RLB trademark obtained the U.S. federal registration under the serial number of 71062653. In 1935 Rogers, Lunt & Bowlen Company's name was shortened to Lunt Silversmiths. In 1957 Lunt Silversmiths acquired King Silver Co and its subsidiary Richard Dimes Company of South Boston, Ma. Lunt Silversmiths had in its inventory a wide array of flatware patterns as Alexandra, American Directoire, American Victorian, Belle Meade...

A most intriguing and relatively rare miniature model of a sterling silver pickaxe, showing a sterling silver axe-head affixed to a finely turned ebony handle. The sterling axe-head bearing impressed makers mark for Rogers, Lunt & Bowlen Co., Greenfield Massachusetts, USA. Given the fine quality of materials used, combined with the fact that no other like examples seem to exist, strongly suggests this most certainly would have been a one of a kind commissioned piece, commemorating either an engineering...

Sterling silver, "Revere" style bowl, Rogers, Lunt & Bowlen Co., Greenfield, Mass., circa 1930s. Measures: 4 1/4" high x 8 1/8" diameter; 15.33 Troy ounces. Excellent condition.