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Turkey Platters These serving platters first appeared, in very limited quantities, in the 1950s,
but they have been produced abundantly as direct to your table heirloom
Continued from Page 1 collectibles since the 1970s.
While many companies have offered aluminum turkey serving
Sheet aluminum is spun or stamped into form, but due platters over the past 50 years, three companies that stand
to the metal’s extreme softness, it is often alloyed with out in this collectible field are Arthur Court Designs,
copper, magnesium, or bronze. Sheet aluminum is Lenox, and Wendell August Forge.
commonly used for baking sheets, pie plates, cake Arthur and Elena Court began Arthur Court
and muffin pans, and serving platters, especially Designs in 1976, sand-casting intricate aluminum
turkey serving platters. creations, including turkey platters. Each Arthur
There are few culinary delights more beautiful Court turkey platter is individually hand crafted
than a carved, golden turkey setting amid other of aluminum and hand polished to a mirror-like
autumn dishes on Thanksgiving Day. In the 1950s, finish. Hand casting each platter separately creates
many Thanksgiving turkeys were served on an handmade variations in each platter, making each
aluminum (sometimes heirloom) platter or serving tray Arthur Court aluminum turkey platter a unique serving
that was often decorated with a turkey design. Today, platter and collectible.
Prices for Arthur Court aluminum turkey platters are usually
these aluminum in the range of $80 - $120; however, Court’s newest turkey serving
BONITA SPRINGS turkey platters are highly platter is part of its “Game Bird” series and retails for $350.
collectible.
Collectible Walter Scott Lenox founded Lenox’s Ceramic Art
aluminum turkey Company in New Jersey in 1889. Lenox’s products were
servers are either first displayed at The Smithsonian Institute in 1897,
hammered or cast making Lenox ware an American institution.
aluminum with Although famous for his ceramic decorative plates and
embossed designs other ceramic dinnerware, Lenox changed his company’s
of turkeys on them. production and name (to Lenox Incorporated) in 1906 as
University Pkwy Lenox sought modern expansion.
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Beginning in the late 20th century, Lenox began
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301 Lockwood Ridge Rd Court large, 21.5 inches, producing aluminum ware. Lenox aluminum turkey
MLK Hwy sand-cast aluminum oval platters are highly detailed and often have two serving
Sarasota turkey platter that is valued handles incorporated into the design. These platters
Central
10th at $145.
Fruitville normally sell for around $45.
Right-Arthur Court Design large,
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platter that is valued at $120.
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