What is this? A small chocolate pot?

It looks like it was used as restaurant ware since all of the silver has worn off. If this were porcelain, I would say yes, a chocolate pot. If used in a restaurant, it could also be used for coffee. Wait for others to give opinions, as I'm no expert.

 

Thanks.

 

here's one with added inscription for Mayflower Hotel

The MAYFLOWER HOTEL Vintage Silverplate Creamer With Wood Handle | eBay

 

Have you read this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Heinrichs

Debora

 

Thanks TallCakes and Debora.

 

I always thought of those tall-ish side-handled pots with low set spouts as coffee pots. I believe chocolate pots have the shaped spout at the top edge so as not to pour chocolate sludge into the recipient's cup. And true antique chocolate pots also had a hole in the lid, sometimes under a hinged finial, for frequent stirring of the contents with a molinet (a wooden whisk/stir stick).

A fancy chafing dish by Heinrichs is worth a tidy sum even though the patina was polished off:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/appraisals/1904-joseph-heinrichs-chafing-dish-stand/

 

As usual, link just goes to black in the US. Item # is 184160879092

Have to think these must have been for pouring hot milk/cream, not what we usually think of as a creamer.

 

I agree it's not what we'd usually think of as a creamer. Probably for a hot drink. Also it has some weight to it. A little over a pound.