Paul Revere’s famous midnight ride, a rare silver coffee pot he made is for sale. Revere was a patriot and a silversmith.
and "the only person in all of the Americas that could take a piece of silver from a silver ingot and make it into a finished product," Bill Rau of antiques dealer MS Rau tells the Washington Post.
This ingot might have been cast from melted down booty or lots of little pieces of 'hack silver'. Whatever it was made from it was melted down into an ingot to make it easy to transport.
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As a the son of a silversmith, Revere “was the only person in all of the Americas that could take a piece of silver from a silver ingot and make it into a finished product,” Rau said.