Serving Spoon
date: label: date made
content: 1783 - 1789
notes: label: Description
content: French thread serving spoon having a large, pointed oval bowl and long, upturned fiddle handle with shallow concave shoulders double struck (pattern on front and back) with a tipped thread border; gothic or Old English "E" engraved lengthwise on terminal back. Back of shaft struck with six marks (most, if not all, facing terminal): left-facing dog or boar head; six-legged winged bug or insect; illegible looped letter or motif; imperial crowned "A"; another illegible mark; and maker's mark with only first initial "G" visible. One of two spoons, DL.300475A-B, with same monogram but by different makers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Food
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charlotte Ellis Danforth in memory of J. Lewis Ellis and Olive M. Ellis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.300475B
label: catalog number
content: 300475B
label: accession number
content: 61510
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spoon
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 12 5/8 in x 2 3/8 in; 3.175 cm x 32.0675 cm x 6.0325 cm