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It has a rounded bowl with a thin stemmed handle with a molded decoration of a simple spiral or gillouche tracery. The crest has four castelated towers surmounting a shield-shaped reserve. It encloses an enameled mount of red and white diamond diapered shield with a legend.
spoons
enameling
silver (metal)
plate (material)
crests (motifs)
shields (motifs)
Silver
Enameled
Yoked Crest
Tower
Shield
SPOON, DEMITASSE
Enameled on the handle terminus is: MONACO. The makers mark on the bowl is indecipherable.
Original to Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.),
Monaco
Unknown
Europe
4.625 (H) (inches)
Bequest of Amelia W. Little
1986.615
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