Spoon
date: label: date made
content: 1801
notes: label: Description
content: Old English serving spoon with pointed oval bowl and rounded downturned handle with midrib on back and foliate script "C" engraved on front; no shoulders. Swage-formed drop on back of bowl. Struck on back of handle with maker's mark "C•D" in raised serif letters in rectangle to left of five hallmarks, Newcastle city mark of three towers in round-bottom shield, lion passant facing left in clipped-corner surround, sovereign's head facing right in profile in oval, crowned leopard's head in round-bottom shield, and Newcastle raised roman date letter "L" in a square.
label: Description
content: Maker is Christopher Dinsdale I of Newcastle, England; active circa 1800. Dinsdale's sons, Christopher Dinsdale II and Cuthbert Dinsdale, both used an identical mark.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Newcastle
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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 John H. Crea
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.66.0556
label: catalog number
content: 66.0556
label: accession number
content: 265238
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spoon
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/8 in x 12 7/8 in x 2 3/8 in; 3.4925 cm x 32.7025 cm x 6.0325 cm