The booty included gold dust, bars of silver, Spanish dollars, rubies, diamonds, candlesticks and porringers. The booty included gold dust, bars of silver, Spanish dollars, rubies, diamonds, candlesticks, and porringers. The most famous colonial porringers are probably those made by Paul Revere. In more modern times, some manufacturers of porringers have produced them without handles. Porringers resembled the smaller quaich, a Scottish drinking vessel.