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An individual pepper shaker rising on a looped-wire base shows how Spratling's design reached an ordinary American table: it was sold through the Montgomery Ward catalogue for five dollars in 1943, matched to an ashtray on a similar base. The looped wire turns a small functional object into something recognizably designed.
Spratling silver was featured in Montgomery Ward catalogues from 1943 to 1946 (Morrill, p. 257), a commercial channel that put hand-wrought Taxco design into mass-market reach. The shaker's appearance in the 1943 Christmas Book records exactly that moment.
It is documented in Montgomery Ward's Christmas Book 1943.
Museum of Mexican Silver. “Looped Wire Pepper Shaker.” Catalog no. MoMS-000306. https://museumofmexicansilver.com/pieces/spratling-302
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Incised Swirl Pepper Shaker
First Design Period: 1931 - 1946
Silver
