Scoop, Cheese
- Object Name:
- Scoop, Cheese
- Object ID:
- 1969.005.117
- Creator:
- Meriden Cutlery Company
Manufacturer - Place of Origin:
- United States
- Date:
- 1880-1900
- Description:
- Cheese Scoop. Silver-plated steel with possible ivory (or synthetic) handle. Handle is oval in section, and flaring slightly to rounded end; long rounded shank with molding at juncture with handle. Shank flattens above concave scoop which is rectangular in outline with rounded end and incurved portions near juncture with shank. No maker's marks.
- Material:
- Metal
Steel
Skeletal
Ivory - Dimensions:
- W-1.125 L-9.4 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). 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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