Husband-wife collectors Robert Hess, a cocktail expert in Seattle, and Audrey Saunders, owner of Pegu Club in New York City, have been hunting down bowls of that era for years.
“When deceased ran and jumped over the bar as he went over he struck a ‘Tom and Jerry’ bowl and fell while he was down the prisoner leaned over the bar and fired the pistol at him deceased exclaimed, “I’m shot ” the prisoner then turned round and threatened to shoot us all: I ran away and went into the rear yard the prisoner seemed to be sober.”īut finding bowls from those early days is near impossible now. Wondrich points to the first appearance of a Tom and Jerry bowl in the New York Times, the recounting, on February 6, 1864, of a bar fight that ended in a death. It’s very possible that the Tom and Jerry bowl (most often ceramic, with the punch’s name painted on the side) was the first piece of barware made expressly for one specific drink. While cocktail historian David Wondrich has done deep research on the Tom and Jerry itself-debunking the notion that Jerry Thomas came up with the drink, a falsehood that Thomas propagated himself-the history of Tom and Jerry drinkware hasn’t been well-documented.
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