Spoon Mold and Spoon
date: label: date made
content: ca 1770-1820
notes: label: Description
content: Two-part mold for an Old English type spoon with long pointed bowl; low-relief, interlocking diamond design on handle face; and round drop on back of bowl. Registration pin at top of terminal. Face of male half engraved "IN" and "1447 / A(?) : O" by different hands. Along with a rough cast pewter spoon made from the mold, with sprue intact at tip of bowl and flashing around all edges. Spoon is broken in half, and has been repaired at juncture of handle with bowl and lengthwise across bowl. Handle decoration crudely done; added later. No other marks on spoon.
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: West Virginia
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John J. Freeland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.165597
label: catalog number
content: 165597
label: accession number
content: 26599
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mold, spoon
label: Object Name
content: spoon
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze (mold material)
label: Physical Description
content: pewter (spoon material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/8 in x 8 1/4 in x 1 7/8 in; 4.1275 cm x 20.955 cm x 4.7625 cm