Spoon, Serving
- Object Name:
- Spoon, Serving
- Object ID:
- 1969.005.099
- Creator:
- Baldwin, Jabez C.
- Place of Origin:
- Boston, MA/Salem, MA
- Date:
- circa 1810
- Description:
- Serving Spoon. Silver. Straight-sided fiddle handle, with downturned coffin end. Egg-shaped bowl. Script initials "SS" engraved on handle face. Stamped mark on reverse of handle: "J.BALDWIN" in upper case letters within a plain rectangle. Tag with accession information attached to handle by string.
- Material:
- Metal
Silver - Dimensions:
- W-1.75 L-9.25 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 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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