Tablespoon
- Object Name:
- Tablespoon
- Object ID:
- 1974.040.02
- Creator:
- Towle, Henry (1788-1867)
- Place of Origin:
- Haverhill, NH
- Date:
- 1819-1821
- Description:
- Tablespoon. Silver. Downturned fiddle handle with spatulate face, rounded end and flat shank with pointed shoulders above ovoid bowl. Script initials "LP" engraved on handle face. Impressed mark, barely visible, on reverse of handle "H. Towle" in upper case letters within a pointed banner.
- Material:
- Metal
Silver - Dimensions:
- W-1.75 L-8.5 inches
- Provenance:
- May have belonged to Louisa Merrill Page (1797-1821) first wife of Samuel Page, the great-grandfather of the donor, m. 1819. It is also possible that it belonged to their daughter, Louisa M. Page (1820-), m. 1839, who went to California c. 1849.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Mildred Weeks Page
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