Art Deco silver plated side spout cocktail shaker by Elkington

A particularly fine quality English Art Deco silver plated side spout cocktail shaker, Circa 1920s, with makers mark to the base for Elkington, Sheffield.  This chic shaker has a screw lid top and the original cork and silver plated stopper to the side spout. In good overall condition with no wear to the silver plating, signs of use on the top of the lid.

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 on to the surface of. It introduced electrotyping as a new method of production for silver plated items and 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.