Manufacturer: Bauscher Brothers
User: Kaiserhof Restaurant
Date of gravy: 1906
Notes: This small sauce boat was used at the Kaiserhof Restaurant located at 242-244 Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis, Minn.
According to the book, Minnesota Eats Out: An Illustrated History, by Kathryn Koutsky, Linda Koutsky and Eleanor Ostman, the grand restaurant opened circa 1900. The building facade and interior were designed in the American Beaux-Arts style, with a "Renaissance-style coffered ceiling, molded plaster details with garlands of flowers, and grand windows [that] were reminiscent of a French chateau or an Italian palazzo."
By 1915, the Kaiserhof site at 244 Nicollet Avenue had been taken over by dry-goods business merchant Jacob Deutsch.
Sources:
Minnesota Eats Out: An Illustrated History, by Kathryn Koutsky, Linda Koutsky & Eleanor Ostman, published by Minnesota Historical Society, 2003
Minnesota, Its Story and Biography, by Henry Anson Castle, published by Lewis Pub. Co., 1915, pp. 1316-1317
White body, topmarked by a gray-black crowned, spread-winged eagle with a shield-shaped body, above an ornate banner with the word "Kaiserhof" and the word "Minneapolis" beneath.