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Dessert Spoon

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1800-1833

GUSN

GUSN-49487

Description

Silver dessert spoon with a fiddle handle, rounded shoulders, and a pointed oval spoon.

Details

Descriptive Terms

dessert spoons
silver (metal)
Spoon, Eating
Spoon, Dessert
Spoon, Dessert

Inscription

"N.C." (Engraved on the handle)

Associated Building

Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),

Maker

Dole, D.N. (Maker)

Credit Line

Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler

Accession Number

1977.431

Places

Massachusetts (United States)

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