Spoon, Sugar
- Object Name:
- Spoon, Sugar
- Object ID:
- 1974.040.05
- Creator:
- Palmer & Bachelders
Silversmith - Place of Origin:
- Boston, MA
- Date:
- 1846-1854
- Description:
- Sugar Spoon. Silver. Double-swell fiddle handle having an upturned, rounded end with short rib on the face; flared, rounded shoulders above flaring, shell-shaped bowl with fluted surface. Script name, "ME Poor", engraved in upper- and lower-case script on the reverse of the handle face. Impressed mark on the reverse of handle: "PALMER&BACHELDER'S." in upper case roman letters in rectangle, star preceding name.
- Material:
- Metal
Silver - Dimensions:
- W-1.25 L-6.1 inches
- Provenance:
- Believed to have belonged to Mary Elizabeth Poor (1830-1900), who married William Hazen Page of Haverhill, New Hampshire in 1854 and was the grandmother of the donor. The Poor family came from Orford, New Hampshire.
Spoon has a maker's mark of Palmer & Bachelder, of Boston, Massachusetts. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Mildred Weeks Page
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