All my life my Mom has had this Silent Butler made of copper with a fancy buggy made of some other metal on it. My Mom gave it to me last year & I recently asked her about it. She could only remember it came from a copper party, like a Tupperware party.

There is no name I can make out. The only marking is rubbed practically off & I don't have a magnifying glass big enough to see it.

I would appreciate if any of you remember this company so I can research this product. I tried searching "home copper parties" & "home copper parties 1960s" to no avail. I was born in 62 and she was married in 61 so it was sometime within 60-63.

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coppercraft guild?

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Maybe thanks I'll look it up and ask Mom. Maybe the name will jog her memory.

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Check ebay, I am pretty sure there is one of these silent butlers listed like you have. My Mom and her aunts hosted lots of these parties. They just kept going to each other's parties and buying things. I had a pair of copper ball stud earring that I just loved. Mom had a lamp that was a copper coffee pot, I think you could only get that by being a hostess with so much in sales.

We had one of the silent butlers also, we kept the money for the paper boy in it on a stand by the front door. That way who ever opened the door when the paperboy was collecting for the week could pay him.

Thank you!

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Coppercraft Guild was centered in SE Massachusetts --my sister worked in the office one summer. Everybody around here had one of those butlers. When people smoked, you were to go to ashtray to ashtray with the "butler" and clean them out and then dump all the butts out at once, but I guess everybody had their own use for them.


Like all the factories in the manufacturing areas of MA, they either closed up or moved their production overseas. The whole strip along the Taunton River than housed so many factories has been mostly leveled and now is being used for other purposes.

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Thanks for the info suezz!

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Wow, that brought back memories! I loved my piggy bank!

I know what you're talking about now! I think they were made for safety. A person was able to empty the ashtrays into the butler and leave the butts and ashes there until later (next morning) to ensure there wasn't a fire started.

It's nice to see others have happy memories of this. This silent butler has been a part of my life as far back as I can remember.

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Loribean, I wonder if that's where my Dad's copper piggy came from! He still has it on his dresser and doesn't remember how he got it. My brother always said he wanted it but sadly he died in a car accident several years ago, so I will get it eventually. I would love to know how it "came to be". It opens up with screws on the back and belly.

I think my mom hosted one of these parties. I still have a copper watering can around here somewhere. I should try and find it and see if it's from Coppercraft Guild. BTW, I'm originally from MA.

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That sounds right.
I will have to ask my parents if it is still somewhere in their basement. It is so cute!