Description:
Silver teaspoon with pointed oval bowl, small rounded shoulders, and downturned fiddle-end handle, which is marked with an eagle punch, the letter "B" and a Native American punch for Theophilus Bradbury (1763-1848), and engraved with the initial "W" in script. An attached white tag reads: "Allen House / 6e /11 (in circle)" and on the reverse "Theophilis Bradbury / Newburyport/ w. 1815." In 1796, Theophilus Bradbury partnered with Joseph Moulton (1744-1816), another eminent silversmith, as Moulton & Bradbury on Merrimack Street where they made plated buckles. By c.1815 Theophilus was in partnership with his son, Ebenezer (1793-1864), as “Theophilus Bradbury & Son” making soup, sauce and cream ladles, table and tea spoons, sugar basins, tea pots, cream pots and pitchers. This spoon is one of a collection of silver spoons from the Viola Wilby estate, and possibly belonged to the Wells family of Deerfield.
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