Description:
Silver tablespoon with a double-swell fiddle handle with a short front midrib, rounded shoulders and pointed oval bowl, which is marked "N. Harding" for Newell Harding (1799-1862), and engraved with the initial "M" in script on the handle, which according to the donor was Miriam Tarbeaux (or Tarbox) Felker (1800-1892) of Saco, Maine, who married Samuel Deering Lanphar.(1798-1849) of Biddeford, Maine, in 1825. The donor is the great-great grandson of Samuel Deering and Mariam Lanphar. 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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