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Mote Spoon

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Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1715-1750

GUSN

GUSN-2531

Description

Shallow oval bowl pierced with scrolls on a tapering narrow handle with a triangular-shaped tip.

Details

Descriptive Terms

mote spoons
piercing
silver (metal)
Silver
Pierced
SPOON

Inscription

Hammered mark on handle back (unidentified--see sketch in accession file).

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

5.125 x 0.75 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.581

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