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Punch Ladle

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Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1760-1800

GUSN

GUSN-2473

Description

A punch ladel with an oval silver cup and a long, narrow twisted baleen handle, with a silver tip to the handle.

Details

Descriptive Terms

punch ladles
baleen
silver (metal)
Silver
Baleen
Twisted
LADLE

Inscription

Faintly incised on the shaft of the handle is: y/x

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

14.5 x 3.25 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.499

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