Ladle
date: label: date made
content: 1800 - 1810
notes: label: Description
content: Hexagonal or coffin-end fiddle ladle with circular bowl and downturned handle engraved "GEB. Dearth" in script on front; no shoulders. Plain back is struck twice "I.FALES" in raised serif letters in a sawtooth or serrated rectangle.
label: Description
content: Maker is James Fales (1780-1857); worked in Newport, RI; Bristol, RI; and New Bedford, MA (exact dates at each place unclear). Father of James Fales Jr. (1810-1879) and Giles Sanford Fales (1816-1887), both silversmiths.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Rhode Island, Newport
label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Bristol
label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, New Bedford
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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 the Misses Long
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.59.2277
label: catalog number
content: 59.2277
label: accession number
content: 113420
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ladle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 14 3/8 in x 3 7/8 in; 8.255 cm x 36.5125 cm x 9.8425 cm