Spoon
- Object Name:
- Spoon
- Object ID:
- 1954.014
- Creator:
- Tifft & Whiting
Manufacturer - Place of Origin:
- North Attleboro, MA
- Date:
- 1840-1853
- Description:
- Spoon. Made by Tifft & Whiting, North Attleboro, MA; 1840-1853. Silver. Hollow cast handle with visible side seams, and spoon inserted into the bolster. Handle is decorated all over including: scrolls at the tip, grape vine with a cluster of grapes in the center, and oval-shaped beading at the base. Spoon insert includes shoulder with pointed fins, and pointed spade-shaped bowl. Stamped on the back of the shoulder, in a vertical format, is a right-facing rooster (or similar bird) within an oval; "T / & / W" in upper case roman letters within a rectangle shape with slightly arched sides; and an arm with hammer in an oval mark. One of set (1954.014-015), with history of use as a child's set.
- Material:
- Metal
Silver - Dimensions:
- W-1.3 L-6.5 inches
- Provenance:
- One of a child's spoon and fork set, given with this history: "silver fork & spoon my Uncle gave to me years ago when I was a school girl. They were his first ones he used; he was over 70 when he died & I've had them since." Donor, Lena M. Churchill (1882-1958) was the niece of William Miles Harrington (1855-1923) of Keene and Concord, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Lena M. Churchill
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