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Interesting Kalo Items

 

We've been collecting Kalo objects for years, and have been fortunate to find well over a thousand Kalo items and sets.  Some of these are currently on our website (the index is here).

 

Our goal is to put them all on the website, but photography is the bottleneck.  Silver is highly reflective (see this page for details).  Taking pictures of it is like photographing a mirror, and it is a tedious process.   But we're slowly working through all the objects.

 

You can see a lot of fine Kalo necklaces, rings, bracelets, pitchers, bowls (large and small), vases, repoussé objects, candlesticks, coffee and tea sets, and other categories by visiting the index.  But some categories (like modernist items) are in progress, so the objects are parked below.  Some pieces, like the odd wall pocket below, really don't easily fit into any category.   Many of these objects, like the side-handled pitchers, syrup pitcher, and tab-handled tray, are among Kalo's best.

 

Miscellaneous Kalo Items Index

Syrup Pitcher and Underplate

Small ebony-handled coffeepot

Small ebony-handled coffeepot 2

Ebony-handled sauce server

Ebony-handled sauce server 2

Large modernist bowl

Small modernist bowl

Footed modernist bowl

Wall pocket

Large unusual footed tray

Large oval tray with unusual handles

Small early tray with strap handles

 

Kalo syrup pitcher and matching underplate (2 pieces).

Syrup pitcher and matching underplate (2 pieces).  Syrup has tapered cylindrical body with bulge at bottom that tapers below to flat bottom and above to hinged top with small tab at top rear to open lid.  Thick strap handle with flat top and curving side, attached with rivets top and bottom and ebony insulators between handle and body. Stubby covered flat top spout is elongated, from top of piece down to bulge at bottom.  Applied MKS monogram on side/ Underplate has small upturned rim.  Syrup: 4" H and 4-3/16" across handle and spout.  Underplate: 4-1/4" W and 3/8" H.  Syrup marked:  STERLING / HAND WROUGHT / AT / THE KALO SHOPS / CHICAGO / AND / NEW YORK / 8569.  Underplate marked:  STERLING / HAND WROUGHT / AT / THE KALO SHOP / S314

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Kalo coffee pot, small, tapering cylindrical form with ebony handle

Coffee pot, small, tapering cylindrical form with ebony handle protruding from holder in side, high curving right-angle spout, hinged lid with round finial, engraved "ANNE DOUGLAS" on side.  5-1/4" H and 7" W (to end of handle).  Marked:  STERLING / HAND BEATEN / AT / KALO SHOPS / PARK RIDGE / ILLS.

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Kalo coffee pot, small, tapering cylindrical form with ebony handle

Coffee pot, small, silver, side-handled, tapering cylindrical form with flat bottom and flat hinged lid that has silver mushroom-shaped finial.  The hinge has a pointed end at the center of the lid and a curving stop with shield-shaped frame where it attaches to the main body.  The tapering spout curves up and out nicely from the bottom of the vessel.  A curving ebony handle fits into a pinned silver tube attached to a shield-shaped frame where it attaches to the main body.  Nice form and proportions.  5" H and 2-7/8" W at the base, 4-1/2" across the spout, with a 3-11/16" L silver and ebony handle on the side.  Marked:  STERLING / HAND WROUGHT / AT / THE KALO SHOPS / CHICAGO / AND / NEW YORK / 3152D

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Kalo sauce server with curved ebony handle

Sauce server, or gravy server, round form server on low ring foot with curved ebony handle.  Graceful modern form.  Engraved "LMB / 1934" on the underside.  8-1/2" W and 3-1/2" H including handle.  Marked:  STERLING / HAND WROUGHT / AT / THE KALO SHOP / BD1 / 3/4 PINTS

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Kalo sauce server with curved ebony handle

Sauce server with ebony handle, round form on low ring foot with curved ebony handle.  Hammered surface.  3" H and 3-3/4" W with 4" handle.  Marked:  STERLING / HAND WROUGHT / AT / THE KALO SHOP / SD1 / 1/4 PINTS

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Kalo modernist bowl with reeded edges

Bowl, modernist, low, round form with flat bottom, flaring sides, broad border and five clusters of ribbed reeding evenly spaced around raised rim.  9-7/16" W and 1-5/8" H.  Marked:  STERLING / HAND WROUGHT / AT / THE KALO SHOP / 112

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Kalo modernist bowl with reeded edges

Kalo modernist bowl with reeded edges

Bowl, modernist, round, on small flaring foot, with five small indentations repeated five times around top of rim.  Nice hammering and proportions, and heavy for its size.  6-5/8" W and 1-3/4" H.  Marked:  STERLING / HAND WROUGHT / AT / THE KALO SHOP / 71

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Kalo modernist bowl with reeded edges

Kalo modernist bowl with reeded edges

Bowl, modernist, low, footed, round, with five beaded areas on rim. Medium foot, engraved crest design in middle "R.A.E. - E.G.L. / July 31, 1967" engraved on bottom.  8-3/8" W and 2" H.  Marked:  STERLING / HAND WROUGHT / AT / THE KALO SHOP / 40

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Kalo wall pocket

Wall pocket, silver-plated copper, in half-circle form with hinged cover, flat bottom and small geometric pierced work at top.  6-1/4" W and 6" H and 5-7/8" D.  Marked:  HAND WROUGHT / KALO

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Kalo footed tray

Tray, round, on four small heavy curved strap feet.  Flat bottom and wide raised edge with heavy applied wire to rim.  Two chased evenly spaced MSC monograms on the top edge.  Heavy and hammered.  13-9/16" W and 1-11/16" H.  STERLING / HAND WROUGHT / AT / THE KALO SHOPS / CHICAGO / AND / NEW YORK / K882L

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Kalo tray with stepped tab handles

Tray, oval, large, with wide raised edge, applied wire to underside of rim, two rectangular slightly curved stepped tab handles.  Engraved on bottom is "From / Marie, Emma, Elsa and Alma / July 12, 1934"  Lovely form.  Unused condition.  Heavy.  16-15/16" L and 11-1/2" W and 1-3/4" H.  Marked:  STERLING / HANDWROUGHT / AT / THE KALO SHOP / H6

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Kalo tray, small, early, rectangular, with raised edges and flat strap handles

Tray, small, early, rectangular, with raised edges and flat strap handles, heavy.  8-1/2" L and 4-7/16" W.  Marked:  STERLING / HAND BEATEN / AT / KALO SHOPS / PARK RIDGE / ILLS. / 5584

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