Basket, Fruit

Object Name:

Basket, Fruit

Object ID:

1966.018.15

Place of Origin:

Undetermined

Date:

circa 1860

Description:

Fruit Basket. Silver. Round solid basket with edges formed of scrolls making large and small scallops. Inside paneled correspondingly with slight dome in center bottom. Foot in a truncated sagging cone shape, hollow inside. Loop handle running from side to side worked and cut out in the form of a leafy vine with grapes in high relief. Handle on pin hinges; handle has oval in center for inscription. Stamped on interior of handle near hinge, "D" in a roman type face; a similar mark is on other half of same hinge. Scratched on bottom of basket, "RMR" (for Rodney M. Rollins).

Material:

Metal
Silver

Dimensions:

H-9.125 W-12.75 D-12.375 inches

Provenance:

Donated by Laura Berry Offutt and her sister Harriet Berry Derham. Was owned by their grandfather, Rodney M. Rollins (1823-1899), and said to have been given to him in the 1850s when he left the mills in Lawrence, MA, to come to N.H. Rodney M. Rollins was born in Goffstown, NH, in 1823, apparently worked in the mills as a young man in Massachusetts, and then returned to New Hampshire and resided in Bedford by 1860. He married Abby Raymore Dodge (1825-1903) and had five children, one of them being Emma Josephine (some records have the reverse name order) Rollins Berry (1855-), who is the mother of the donors.

Credit Line:

Gift of Laura Berry Offutt and Harriet Berry Denham

People:

Rollins, Rodney M. (1823-1899), Rollins, Abby R. (1825-1903)