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Maker(s):Harding, Newell
Culture:American (1799-1862)
Title:spoon
Date Made:1826-1851
Type:Food Service
Materials:silver
Place Made:United States; Massachusetts; Boston
Measurements:overall: 5 3/4 x 1 1/4 in.; 14.605 x 3.175 cm
Accession Number:  HD 2001.53.5
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
One of seven silver spoons *HD 2001.53.4-.10) with a downturned fiddle handle, pointed shoulders, and pointed oval bowl, which is marked "N. Harding" in a rectangle for Newell Harding (1799-1862), and engraved with the initials "MT" in script on the handle. 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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