Spoon, Dessert
- Object Name:
- Spoon, Dessert
- Object ID:
- 1969.005.108.1
- Creator:
- Durgin, William B. Company
Silversmith - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- circa 1900
- Description:
- Dessert Spoon. Silver. Handle shank slightly rounded on top and broadening to downturned, rounded end with short rib on reverse of ovoid bowl. Script initials "ASM" engraved on handle face. Impressed marks on reverse of handle shank: "D" within oval incuse and "Sterling" and "Richards," all in upper case letters also incuse.
- Material:
- Metal
Silver - Dimensions:
- W-1.5 L-7.125 inches
- Provenance:
- The Josiah Abbott Dadmun (1840-c.1925) and Susan Dadmun (1844-c.1934) Collection is a bequest of their daughter, Helen I. Dadmun (Mrs. Frank C.) Doble (1881-1969). Mrs. Doble's bequest includes: "my 'Durgin' silver." 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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