Nifty Art Deco Side Spout Cocktail Shaker By Elkington

A nifty Art Deco English silver plated cocktail shaker with side spout and original cork and silver plated stopper, with makers mark to base for Elkington, Circa 1940s. 

A good quality piece of vintage barware, perfect to bang out your favourite cocktail recipe. Elkington & Co. are one of the most important names in English silver and certainly the most important in silver plate. They began life in Birmingham as a company of silversmiths in 1836 and experimented with improving gilding techniques. 

By 1838, they had discovered and patented a new way to electroplate one metal onto the surface of. It introduced electrotyping as a new method of production for silver-plated items and was exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851 with enormous success. Elkington held Royal Warrants for Queen Victoria, King Edward VI, King George V, King Edward VIII and King George VI.