Israel Trask

  General notes:

Silversmith and pewtersmith

  Events in his life were:

• Alternate Mark

• Apprenticed about 1799 to John W. Ellingwood, a silversmith, in Beverly MA ⁹

• He worked from 1807 to 1825 as a silversmith in Beverly MA having bought out the stock and trade of his master. ⁹

• Teapot, c 1815
Private Collection

• Teapot, c 1815
Private Collection

• Master to John Baker Woodbury abt 1818 in Beverly MA. ⁹

• He worked from 1825 to 1856 as a pewtersmith in Beverly MA
The design and decoration of his work in pewter testify to his training as a silversmith. ⁹