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- Description
- Puritan type rattail spoon with fig-shaped bowl and straight handle, flattened hexagonal in section with squared end. Face of bowl below juncture with handle is struck once with touchmark of "HK" in an imperial crown above an undulating sunburst motif. One of five matching spoons, DL*38840, 3884041, 388048, 388049, and 388050.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- spoon
- date made
- 16th-17th century
- 1660-1710
- place made
- Europe
- place used
- United States: New England
- used
- United States: New England
- Physical Description
- pewter (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/2 in x 6 7/8 in x 2 1/8 in; 1.27 cm x 17.4625 cm x 5.3975 cm
- ID Number
- DL.388350
- catalog number
- 388350
- accession number
- 182022
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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