Ladle
date: label: date ladle made
content: 1786-1787
label: date coin made
content: 1757
notes: label: Description
content: 1757 George II sixpence or half shilling ladle with twisted baleen or whalebone handle. Raised bowl has bulbous sides, plain flared rim and single pouring spout with the coin set in at bottom center. Silver portion of shaft consists of a flat, tapered section bright cut with a shield containing "TR" in conjoined script and a conical socket for the capped handle, which is secured by a single pin. Underside of spout is struck with five hallmarks, an undecipherable maker's mark, a lion passant facing left in a clipped-corner square, a crowned leopard's head in a clipped-corner rounded shield, the raised lowercase roman date letter "l" in a clipped-corner pointed shield, and a sovereign's head in profile facing right in an oval.
label: Description
content: Ladle was made thirty years after coin was minted.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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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 Kate Session Marsh
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.383728
label: catalog number
content: 383728
label: accession number
content: 166645
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ladle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: baleen (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/8 in x 14 5/8 in x 3 in; 3.4925 cm x 37.1475 cm x 7.62 cm