Teaspoon
- Object Name:
- Teaspoon
- Object ID:
- 1969.005.011.1
- Creator:
- Beasom & Reed
Jeweler - Place of Origin:
- Nashua, NH
- Date:
- circa 1841
- Description:
- Teaspoon. Sold by Beasom & Reed, Nashua, NH; c. 1841. Silver. Double-swell downturned fiddle handle with rounded end, tapering rounded shoulders, and an oval bowl. "M.E.H." engraved in script on front of handle. "NASHUA." and "BEASOM & REED." in upper case Roman letters, stamped in rectangles on reverse of handle. (1949.024.05 is a mate to this spoon).
- Material:
- Metal
Silver - Dimensions:
- W-1.125 L-5.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Mate to to Beasom & Reed teaspoon owned by Martha Carter (Gookin) Huntoon (1820-1906) of Salisbury and Andover. The Josiah Abbott Dadmun (1840-1924) and Susan Dadmun (1844-1936) Collection is a bequest of their daughter, Helen I. Dadmun (Mrs. Frank C.) Doble (1881-1969). Mrs. Doble's bequest includes: "my collection of early American sterling silver spoons." Other items in the collection include: New Hampshire and other silver, wallpaper samples, fans, personal items, and birchbark pictures made by E. H. Merrill.
- Credit Line:
- Josiah Abbott Dadmun and Susan Dadmun Collections, Bequest of Helen I. Dadmun Doble
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