Spoon Mold
date: label: date made
content: 1730 - 1780
name: label: Associated Name
content: Copp Family
notes: label: Description
content: This is a brass mold and cast–spoon that belonged to the Copp family of Stonington, Connecticut during the 18th and 19th century. The mold is for a Hanoverian type rattail spoon, with a stem that widens gradually toward its curved finial and then turns upward. The pewter spoon is unfinished, with the remnant from the sprue still at the spoon’s lip and protrusions along the handle.
label: Description
content: The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
label: place used
content: United States: New England
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Copp Collection
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Brenton Copp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.006835
label: catalog number
content: 6835
label: accession number
content: 28810
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mold, spoon
label: Object Name
content: spoon
label: Other Terms
content: Spoon; Spoon and 2 pieces of a brass spoon mold; Spoon Mold; Spoon and 2 pieces of a spoon mold; Fire Making Apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze (mold material)
label: Physical Description
content: pewter (spoon material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 8 in x 1 7/8 in; 3.175 cm x 20.32 cm x 4.7625 cm