Spoon, Salt
- Object Name:
- Spoon, Salt
- Object ID:
- 2011.014.01.3
- Creator:
- Gray, Robert (1792-1860)
Silversmith - Place of Origin:
- Portsmouth, NH
- Date:
- circa 1820
- Description:
- Salt Spoon. Made by Robert Gray (1792-1860), Portsmouth, NH; Owned by Mehitable Sheafe Ffrost (1799-1879), Durham, NH; c. 1820. Silver. Downturned fiddle handle with pointed fins and a curved, oval bowl. "MSF" engraved in feather script on front of handle. "RG" in upper case Roman letters, stamped in rectangle on reverse of handle. One of a set of four.
- Material:
- Metal
Silver - Dimensions:
- W-0.9 L-4 inches
- Provenance:
- From the Ffrost-Sawyer Homestead in Durham, NH. The spoons were originally owned by Mehitable Sheafe Ffrost (1799-1879), daughter of George Ffrost (1765-1841) and Margaret (Burleigh) Ffrost (1770-1846). Descended in the Ffrost and Sawyer families until the spoons were sold by descendant Charles H. Sawyer (1909-2005) to a Michigan antiques dealer, who in turn sold them to the donor. They are related to two card tables (1983.002.02.1-2) owned by Mehitable Sheafe Ffrost and her sister Elizabeth Ffrost, given to NHHS by George F. and Charles H. Sawyer in 1983. The Society also received family papers documenting the purchase of domestic objects for the daughters of George Ffrost.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of John F. Page
- Subjects:
- Silver, Silversmiths, Silverware
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