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Culture:American
Title:cann
Date Made:1780-1800
Type:Food Service
Materials:silver
Place Made:United States; Massachusetts; Boston (probably)
Measurements:overall: 5 1/2 in.; 13.97 cm
Accession Number:  HD 1742
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
One of a pair of bulbous-shaped silver canns (unmarked) with a double-scoll handle and molded raiised foot, which is engraved "E.T. to E.S.T." These are probably the initials of Edward Tuckerman (1740-1818) of Boston to his daughter, Elizabeth Tuckerman (1768-1851), who married Stephen Salisbury (1746-1829) in 1797. Drinking vessels with a bulbous shape and without lids were popular in the colonies from the 1720s to around 1800. Canns varied little in shape other than in their handles, which tended to be double-scrolled starting in the mid 1700s. Wgts. 8 1/2 ozs., 12 dwts., 3 grs. and 8 1/2 ozs., 3 dwts., 8 grs. See also the tankard (HD 1741) ordered by Edward Tuckerman from Samuel Minott (1732-1803) and engraved with the Tuckerman coat-of-arms.

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