Teaspoon
- Object Name:
- Teaspoon
- Object ID:
- 1981.008.04.3
- Place of Origin:
- Portsmouth, NH
- Date:
- 1800-1810
- Description:
- Teaspoon. Unidentified maker, Portsmouth, NH; 1800-1810. Silver. Downturned, tapered coffin-end handle, with a slender, pointed egg-shaped bowl. Engraved wriggle-work v-drop on back of bowl. Engraved on front of handle: "W / S B" in uppercase block letters, with a diamond device made of 4 dots between the S and B. Initials of Samuel Woodbury (1759-1816 and his wife Betty (Morse) Woodbury (1760-1837). One of a set of six (1981.8.4.1-.6).
- Material:
- Metal
Silver - Dimensions:
- W-0.875 L-5 inches
- Provenance:
- Samuel and Betty (Morse) Woodbury were the great-great-grandparents of Warren Clough Parsons (1900-1966), the husband of the donor, Mary Lavina Brewster Parsons (1904-1980).
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Mary Brewster Parsons
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