Spoon

Description:

Stump-top spoon with deep, fig-shaped bowl and straight hexagonal handle with flared flat end. Face of bowl below juncture with handle is struck once with a crowned rose touchmark. Figure indecipherable. One of twelve "Assortment of old spoons of pewter, brass etc., DL*59.1205A-L."

Date Made: 1600-1700

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: Netherlands

See more items in: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life, Domestic Furnishings

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Credit Line: Estate of Charles F. Wiebusch

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: DL.59.1205LCatalog Number: 59.1205LAccession Number: 111627

Object Name: spoon

Physical Description: pewter (overall material)Measurements: overall: 3/4 in x 6 3/4 in x 2 1/8 in; 1.905 cm x 17.145 cm x 5.3975 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b0-0d5b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_300597

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