AN AMERICAN SILVER TANKARD

Richard Loeb (b. 1905) was a successful businessman and important collector of American silver, discussed in Charles Montgomery's Early American Silver: Collectors, Collections, Exhibitions, Writings (Portland, 1969). Following a dispute with the US government over his taxes he left the country for Chile shortly after World War II, leaving his collection to Ginsberg & Levy to sell on his departure.
Samuel Minot (1732-1803) was born in Concord, Massachusetts, and likely began his apprenticeship in 1746, possibly with Edward Winslow, as Minot married Winslow's granddaughter Elizabeth Davis (1738-1823) in 1762, or with William Homes Sr. Minot began working as a freeman by 1755, though work likely halted during the Revolutionary War as Minot was a Tory and was arrested in 1776, though he stayed in Boston. Minot began advertising again in 1785, and continued producing silver good, as well as importing silver and jewelry, until 1795.