The Frank Watson Bowl, 1976

It was presented in a boardroom in Raleigh in 1976. The kind with low ceilings, paneled walls,...

The Frank Watson Bowl, 1976

It was presented in a boardroom in Raleigh in 1976. The kind with low ceilings, paneled walls, and the faint smell of coffee burned since dawn.

The engraving reads: Frank Watson, Board of Directors, North Carolina Prepaid Legal Services.

No one remembers the speech given before it was handed over. Perhaps Frank himself barely remembered it. But for one brief moment, in that peculiar bicentennial year, he was immortalized in silver plate.

Decades later, the world has forgotten the man and the board that honored him. The bowl, however, remains—rescued, polished, and poured with warm, flickering wax.

Now it will not commemorate a committee meeting. It will sit in your home, glowing with quiet grandeur, reminding you that even the most ordinary triumphs deserve their candlelight.

And if you fall in love with Frank the way we did, send your bowl back when the flame burns down. We’ll refill it for you, so Frank can keep burning bright.

Silver Plate Gorham bowl, 5" inches across, soy wax, wooden wicks, smells faintly of fir