Teaspoon
- Object Name:
- Teaspoon
- Object ID:
- 1986.108.97
- Creator:
- Wakefield, John
- Place of Origin:
- Great Falls (Somersworth), NH
- Date:
- 1845-1850
- Description:
- Teaspoon, silver. Fin-and-fiddle form. Double-swell fiddle handle, with upturned rounded end, and short (1/4") mid-rib on front. Flared rounded fins. Egg-shaped bowl. Indecipherable upper-case script letters engraved on front of handle (possibly "PT") (According to accession file, it is "PT"). Stamped on back of fins/stem, in upper-case roman letters: "J.WAKEFIELD.", within a plain rectangle.
- Material:
- Metal
Silver - Dimensions:
- W-1.187 L-6 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of the Charles H. Batchelder Collection of New Hampshire silver (formerly Loan 1959.88). Charles H. Batchelder (1876-1948) was a N.H.H.S. trustee, and a silver collector.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase, with funds provided by subscription, including a grant from Chubb Life America
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