Pennsylvania Sale (1322) November 23, 2008 EDT, Main Floor Gallery Lot 804 Estimate: $12000 - $15000 (plus Buyer's Premium) American silver five-piece tea and coffee service chaudron's and rasch, philadelphia, pennsylvania, circa 1812 Comprising coffeepot, teapot, covered sugar bowl, cream jug and waste bowl. Each of shaped rectangular form, on ball feet with bail handles, the body decorated with pressed strap work and gadrooned borders, the removable covers with dolphin finials, marked with a bright-cut coat-of-arms of the Maxcy family. Tallest H: 10 1/4 in. Total weight: 136.8 oz. Provenance: Descended in the Maxcy family of Maryland. Virgil Maxcy(1785-1844) a lawyer, writer , business man, plantation owner and political appointee was born in Massachusetts but spent most of his life in Maryland. Maxcy married Mary Galloway in 1811 and lived on the Galloway family estate Tulip Hill, outside of Annapolis. Maxcy was a life long friend of John C. Calhoun and a Populist in his politics. An active campaignor for Andrew Jackson, Maxcy was appointed the first Solicitor of the United States Treasury upon Jackson's election. He waged political war over the control of the funds in the United States Treasure with Jackson against First Bank of the United States and Nicholas Biddle. He was appointed U.S. charge d'affaires at Brussels, under Martin Van Buren. Maxcy was killed by an explosion during an official Washington D.C. reception for the U.S.S. Princeton, the first propeller-driven ship in the U.S. Navy in 1844. Maxcy also published The Law of Maryland, with the Charter, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution of the States and Its Alterations...1692-1809 in three volumes. Maxcy's papers are in the Library of Congress..