Ladle
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880-1890
notes: label: Description
content: Small fiddle and shell ladle with a gilt washed, horizontal oval bowl, rounded downturned handle with midrib on back, and notched ogee-curved shoulders at bottom end. Semicircular drop on back of bowl. Back of terminal is stippled or pricked in script "Mencke / 2". Back of shaft is struck with two marks, "Bullin" in raised script in a rectangle and "12" in a clipped-corner rectangle.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
label: place used
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of August Mencken
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.68.0454
label: catalog number
content: 68.0454
label: accession number
content: 274913
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ladle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (gilt wash material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/8 in x 6 1/2 in x 2 3/8 in; 3.4925 cm x 16.51 cm x 6.0325 cm