Spoon
- Object Name:
- Spoon
- Object ID:
- 1980.012.01
- Description:
- Spoon, latten (tin-plated brass). Egg-shaped bowl. Sides of bowl very low. Two pieces of rim missing at end of bowl. Small piece missing from edge on left. Handle very worn with flat top. Rib along either side of handle. Surfaces adjacent to rib slightly flat. Some deep abrasions near back end of handle. Small, plain, flat cap finial. Maybe remnants of round mark in bowl near handle juncture. Bowl surfaces inside and out very rough. White surface residue in bowl (probably tin oxidation).
- Material:
- Metal
Brass - Dimensions:
- H-0.7 W-1.9 L-6 inches Weight-1.1 oz
- Provenance:
- Spoon was dug up c. 1940 by Percy Whipple near the old Wipple homestead in Goffstown, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Joseph and Amelia Theriault
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