Spoon
date: label: date made
content: 1650-1700
label: date made
content: 1700-1750
notes: label: Description
content: Puritan type rattail spoon with deep circular bowl and straight handle, roughly rectangular in section with squared end. Face of bowl is struck with an eight-petaled flower or rosette motif below juncture with handle. Back of terminal struck once with a pointed shield containing a standing figure holding something up in their hand. File marks on handle sides suggest it might have originally been hexagonal in section.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
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 Dr. Joseph H. Kler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0027.51
label: accession number
content: 1986.0027
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0027.51
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spoon
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 7 1/8 in x 2 3/8 in; 2.2225 cm x 18.0975 cm x 6.0325 cm