For two years Bert Edmonston III has been working to complete his greatest masterpiece, a replica of a silver punch bowl presented to Col. George Armistead in 1812. The original bowl, which is now ...

Perhaps your last encounter with a bowl of punch involved peppermint schnapps, a Texas mickey of Sauza Silver and a frat-house bartender aptly nicknamed Spike. Don't remember? Of course not ...

In 1829, George IV ordered up a bathtub-sized silver-gilt wine cistern that Queen Victoria later converted into a punch bowl, commissioning a massive shell-shaped ladle to match. Moulded ...