Spoon Holder
date: label: date made
content: ca 1870
label: Date made
content: DELETE
label: patent date
content: 1870-07-19
name: label: maker
content: Meriden Britannia Company
notes: label: Description
content: Two-handled, circular spoon holder on four legs ending in lion's paw feet decorated with stamped and chased mimosa foliage on its body. Sharply-angled handles, square in section, have scroll-ended upper terminals and square-and-scroll lower terminals. Circular lion's masks are at top corners of handles and at middle of leg mounts. Underside of flat bottom is struck incuse with a circular mark containing a pointed shield with balanced scales bordered by "MERIDEN / B. COMP[AN]Y" in sans serif letters; "PATENT APPLIED FOR" is stamped above and "1877" below.
label: Description
content: Maker is Meriden Britannia Company of Meriden, CT. Meriden Britannia Co. was founded in 1852 and became a subsidiary of International Silver Co. in 1898; International continued to use the Meriden name and mark until at least the 1930s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Meriden
label: place owned; place used
content: United States: New England
topic: label: Subject
content: Beverages
label: Subject
content: Coffee Drinking
label: Subject
content: Tea Drinking
label: Subject
content: Patent Medicine
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of the Misses Long
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.59.2287
label: catalog number
content: 59.2287
label: accession number
content: 113420
objectType: label: Object Name
content: holder, spoon
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: electroplate (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/8 in x 7 1/8 in x 3 3/8 in; 13.0175 cm x 18.0975 cm x 8.5725 cm