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1845-1855
GUSN-8371
Fiddleback-shaped handle with "dog nose" tip on shallow pointed-end bowl.
teaspoons
engraving (printing process)
silver (metal)
Silver
Stipple Engraved
TEASPOON
Stamped at stem of handle back: H. COGSWELL [makers mark with rectangular reserve] Engraved at handle front: L. LOWE [in script] Inscribed on tag by NFL: Henry Cogs-/well, Salem/1824-1865,/Estate of/Miss Lowe,/Essex
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Cogswell, Henry, 1760 C (Maker)
5.875 (H) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.596
Massachusetts (United States)
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