1920 West Point US Military Academy Gorham Sterling Silver Coffee & Tea Set

Description

Denver Gold and Silver Exchange is pleased to present for Sale:
1920 West Point US Military Academy Gorham Sterling Silver Tea / Coffee Set
Make/Model - Gorham
Retailed by the Bailey, Banks & Biddle Co
All 3 pieces have the United States Military Academy Crest and the year 1920
Material – Sterling Silver
Pattern:  Plymouth
Monogrammed:  S underneath the West Point Logo on each piece
Handles and lids are tight - no wobble
This beautiful Coffee and Teas set was professionally polished by a silversmith.
Measurements:
Measurements – Large pot is 8" tall, small pot is 6" tall, creamer is 4.5" tall
Large coffee pot weighs 549.2grams  /  Small tea pot weighs 472.2grams / Creamer weighs 176.9 grams
Total weight : 1,198.3 grams
The set is monogrammed with "S" --
some of the class of 1920
with the last name starting with "S" could be: Seybold, Stanley, Swartz, Stratton, Stace, Schick, Schabacker.
West Point, a Century Ago, 1911-1920: An Amazing Decade
by Robert C. Carrol Colonel, US Army Retired
Looking back at West Point one hundred years ago, we see a dripping wet New Cadet Dwight Eisenhower (1915) on 14 June 1911 wondering what in the world he had gotten himself into. By the end of that decade, Brig. Gen. Douglas MacArthur (1903) would be West Point’s new superintendent. In the interim, the academy would endure some amazing events and challenges. It would also graduate a pantheon of leaders who would serve our nation with remarkable distinction. What follows is a glimpse of what it was like to be at the Military Academy a century ago and a snapshot of the alumni it produced during the decade 1911-1920.
And these young men would face a science-heavy West Point curriculum with math, physical sciences, engineering, and ordnance, along with English, history, law, languages, tactics, and gymnastics/physical culture. Demanding? Yes! As it is today!