Teaspoon
- Object Name:
- Teaspoon
- Object ID:
- 1969.005.098.5
- Creator:
- Baldwin, Jabez C.
- Place of Origin:
- Boston, MA/Salem, MA
- Date:
- circa 1810
- Description:
- Silver Teaspoon. Handle having downturned spatulate face, relatively flat end and flat shank above ovoid bowl. Script initial "T" engraved on handle face. Impressed mark on reverse of handle: "J. Baldwin", upper case letters in rectangle. Tag with accession information attached to handle by string.
- Material:
- Metal
Silver - Dimensions:
- W-1.125 L-5.375 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). Mrs. Doble's bequest includes: "my collection of early American sterling silver spoons." 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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