Ladle
date: label: date made
content: post-1838
notes: label: Description
content: Ladle having a raised, fluted, horizontal oval bowl with two pouring spouts and small boss bottom attached to a twisted baleen or whalebone handle. Silver portion of handle consists of a long, tightly twisted shaft, square in section, and a conical socket for the baleen, which is secured with a silver pin. Shaft is struck with three marks, one on front is part of an insect countermark while two on back are the profile head of Minerva, facing right, with small "1" at top right in a clipped-corner surround and the maker's diamond-shaped mark. Two stamps on one spout include a partial grasshopper countermark on top and another Minerva head on underside.
label: Description
content: Minerva guarantee mark for .950 silver, used from 1838 to present; complex bigornes (or countermarks depicting insects, always stamped on opposite side from guarantee) also adopted in 1838.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. B. Woodruff Weaver
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.62.0254
label: catalog number
content: 62.0254
label: accession number
content: 240072
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 16 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in; 3.4925 cm x 41.91 cm x 8.89 cm