Object Details
- Description
- Large, misshapen, elongated oval spoon with an asymmetrical ruffled shell cast on back of bowl. Turned and incised wood handle is fitted into the conical shaft, which has two shallow rings around its top. Lower half of a torn paper label affixed inside bowl is inscribed "[Ger]man spoon" in script. No marks.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Louis A. Craig
- 1750-1850
- ID Number
- DL.309674.0002
- catalog number
- 309674.0002
- accession number
- 309674
- Object Name
- spoon
- Physical Description
- pewter (bowl, shaft material)
- wood (handle material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 1/8 in x 14 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 5.3975 cm x 36.195 cm x 6.35 cm
- place made
- Germany
- Associated Place
- United States: Massachusetts, Holyoke
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_300607
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746af-b1c6-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
