Description:
Silver teaspoon with pointed oval bowl, rounded shoulders, and downturned fiddle-end handle, which is marked "D.B.H & Co" in a serrated rectangle on the back of the handle for D.B. Hindman & Co, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia, circa 1833-1837, and engraved with the initials "CF" in script for Chandler Field. A tag attached to spoon reads: "CF / Chandler/ Field / 7a" and on the reverse, "Husband of / Helen M. Wells,/ dau. of Joel." Helen M. Wells (1836-1917) was the daughter of Joel B. Wells (1795-1841) and Sarah Merritt (b.1796) of Deerfield, and married Chandler Augustus Field (1829-1875) of Conway in 1869. This spoon is one of a collection of silver spoons from the Viola Wilby estate. Daniel Burritt Hindman or Hinman
(1799-1863) worked as a silversmith, jeweler, and clockmaker in Philadelphia PA as D. B. HINDMAN & Co from 1833 to 1837,as a wholesale jeweler and clockmaker in Philadelphia from 1838 to 1859
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