pepper-stands

Updated: August 13, 2026

The service used at the first course was that especially decorated for the White House during the Hayes Administration. At each plate were set six Bohemian wine-glasses, a cut-glass carafe, tumbler, and champagne glass. Salt-sellers of cut-glass, with golden shovels, and silver pepper-stands were beside these.

Benjamin Perley Poore - Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2: of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis