Spoon Holder
date: label: date made
content: ca 1875
notes: label: Description
content: Urn-shaped container engraved "Pearce" in gothic or Old English letters on the tapered lower half of its body, which rests on a circular, cove-molded base mounted with four cast standing eagles perched on tree branches that serve as feet, their backs and outspread wings pressed against the urn. A die-rolled band of birds and insects amidst flowering branches and flowers in vases is inset below the rounded shoulder. Underside of flat bottom is struck incuse with a pair of balanced scales, "MIDDLETOWN PLATE C\o (underlined)", "TRIPLE PLATE", and "2015".
label: Description
content: Maker is Middletown Plate Co. of Middletown, CT. Middletown Plate Co. was founded in 1864 and became a subsidiary of International Silver Co. in 1898; International continued to use the Middletown name and mark until at least 1921.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Middletown
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0071.02
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0071.02
label: accession number
content: 1992.0071
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: 6 in x 5 in; 15.24 cm x 12.7 cm