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Maker(s):Harding, Newell
Culture:American (1799-1862)
Title:fork
Date Made:1826-1851
Type:Food Service
Materials:silver
Place Made:United States; Massachusetts; Boston
Measurements:overall: 6 3/4 in x 7/8 in; 17.145 cm x 2.2225 cm
Accession Number:  HD 95.012.8
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
One of a set of eleven silver four-tined forks with an upturned fiddle-end handle with a short midrib on front and chamfered shoulders, which is marked N. Harding" in a banner for Newell Harding (1799-1862), and engraved "Carruth" in script on the back. Newell Harding apprenticed with Hazen Morse (b.1790) from 1820-1825, and worked in Boston as a silversmith from 1826-1851. Harding was in partnership with Francis Low Harding, Alexander H, Lewis, and Lewis B. Kimball from 1851-1859 and with Francis Low Harding and Lewis B. Kimball from 1859-1862 as Newell Harding and Co. in Boston.

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