Spoon
Spoon
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- Description
- Puritan type rattail spoon with circular bowl and straight handle, flattened hexagonal in section with squared end. Face of bowl below juncture with handle is struck once with partial touchmark of an eight-petaled flower beneath "S[?]".
- 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: 5/8 in x 7 1/8 in x 2 3/8 in; 1.5875 cm x 18.0975 cm x 6.0325 cm
- ID Number
- DL.388342
- catalog number
- 388342
- accession number
- 182022
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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