Check the listing for details. Antique Adams Hallock & Co. 1871 Large Silverplate Cryptochylon Water Pitcher. Listed at 475.00 USD. Antique Adams Hallock & Co. 1871 Large Silverplate Cryptochylon Water Pitcher. Engraved J.C. Stott10" high 6" diameter. 5 pond 7 oz.The photos include a description from The Industrial Monthly from Jan 1872 an interesting piece from The Capital newspaper June 29th 1873 regarding these pitchers… MR. REED of THE CAPITAL returns his thanks to H. Semken, agent in this city, for an elegant cryptochylon ice pitcher made expressly for him by the manufacturers, Messrs. Adams, Hallock Jfc Co., No. I Bond street, New* York. The outer and inner surfaces of the pitcher are of silver, the former exhibitipg, in monogram, the initials -of the donee. "Cryptochylon" signifies inclosed wood; and the pitcher is of wood hermetically sealed within a metallic covering. It possesses, therefore, i n , an eminent degree, three essential qualities: purity, durability, and non-conduction. The cryptochylon was awarded a special medal by the American Institute exhibition of 1872, and is well, deserving of the preference which it received. As a part of the paraphernalia of our editorial haunt we have, to the present of our thoughtful friend, Mr. Semlcen, but one objection : it is too handsome.