Spoon
date: label: date made
content: 1727
notes: label: Description
content: Large Hanoverian serving spoon with oval bowl and upturned rounded terminal with midrib on front; long swage-formed rattail on back of bowl. Back of shaft struck with four hallmarks, the raised roman date letter "M" in square (facing terminal), a crowned leopard's head in rounded shield (facing bowl), a lion passant facing left in rounded-corner square rectangle (sideways), and maker's mark "I W" in raised serif letters in a rectangle.
label: Description
content: Maker is James Wilkes of London, England; active circa 1722-1755 (registered this mark in 1722 and 1728).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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: Gift of M. Merriweather Post
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.58.0016
label: catalog number
content: 58.0016
label: accession number
content: 215978
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spoon
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 14 3/8 in x 2 3/4 in; 2.8575 cm x 36.5125 cm x 6.985 cm