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1710-1740
GUSN-2535
Shallow oval bowl pierced with asymmetrical scrolls on a slender rounded handle with a spade-shaped terminus; back cast with a shell device just above junction of bowl and handle.
mote spoons
carving (processes)
piercing
silver (metal)
Silver
Pierced
Carved
SPOON
Two marks hammered on back of handle: a partial lion rampant, and a pair of owl eyes.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
5.625 (H) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.585
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