Serving Spoon
date: label: date made
content: 1798 - 1809
notes: label: Description
content: French thread serving spoon having a large, pointed oval bowl and long, upturned fiddle handle with shallow concave shoulders double struck (pattern on front and back) with a tipped thread border; gothic or Old English "E" engraved lengthwise on terminal back. Back of shaft struck with three marks (all facing terminal): a rising sun above "P / L \ B" in diamond or lozenge; crowing cock with body facing right and "1" at lower right in clipped-corner vertical rectangle; and classical male head affronté flanked by "85" in oval. One of two spoons, DL.300475A-B, with same monogram but by different makers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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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 Charlotte Ellis Danforth in memory of J. Lewis Ellis and Olive M. Ellis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.300475A
label: catalog number
content: 300475A
label: accession number
content: 61510
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spoon
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 12 3/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 3.175 cm x 32.385 cm x 5.715 cm