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Spoon

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1710-1720

GUSN

GUSN-3347

Description

An ovoid bowl with a rats tail at the back on a tapered rounded stem with a flattened trifid terminous bearing a touch mark.

Details

Descriptive Terms

spoons
pewter (tin alloy)
tin (metal)
Pewter
SPOON

Inscription

The touch mark on the handle reads: T.M./1716 .

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

7.75 x 1.875 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1133

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