Server, Pie
- Object Name:
- Server, Pie
- Object ID:
- 1971.019
- Creator:
- Wakefield & Woodward
Jeweler - Place of Origin:
- Somersworth, NH/Great Falls, NH
- Date:
- 1857-1867
- Description:
- Pie Server. "Prince Albert" pattern. Handle edged in shell and scroll decoration with upturned end, which continues along on front and back of handle, ending on back-side of blade with a rounded drop-like decoration. Spade-shaped blade, fully covered with an engraved and pierced floral design. Edge of blade engraved with smaller vine pattern. Blade has raised corner tangs. "Buffum" engraved in script on back of handle. "WAKEFIELD&WOODWARD" and PURE-COIN", in upper case Roman letters, stamped incuse, on back of handle.
- Material:
- Metal
Silver - Dimensions:
- W-2.75 L-9.2 inches
- Provenance:
- Serving piece, elaborately decorated, which has the name "Buffum" engraved on it. The maker's mark is that of the Somersworth, N.H. partnership of Albert Wakefield (c.1819-before 1878) and James J. Woodward (c.1828-c.1894), which dissolved prior to 1867.
The piece may have belonged to then banker and mill owner, and later state senator, David Hanson Buffum (1820-1882), who moved from Maine to Somersworth, NH, at the age of 19 (1838) and resided there for the rest of his life. - Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
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