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Elongated handle with fiddle-head end with incised beaded edge and trefoil terminus. The head is a wide flat rectangular body with one edge cut straight across; the other side is dished or scooped. The interior with stylized (renaissance like anthemia heart shaped scrolls) with stippled round; floral terminus; border of arch and diamond elements.
crumbers
brass (alloy)
plating (metal coating)
silver (metal)
anthemion
Crumber
Brass
Plated
Silver
Anthemion
Crumber
Patent 1861/(lion) T.G. (impressed)
Original to Roseland Cottage (Woodstock, Conn.),
Unknown
12.75 x 3 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Margaret Carson Holt
1970.824
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