Description:
Sterling silver souvenir teaspoon, oval pointed bowl with curved and pointed handle; bowl has a light wash of gold and is engraved with an image of the Old Indian House of Deerfield and is inscribed, "OLD INDIAN HOUSE/ OLD DEERFIELD 1704"; the handle has a variety of implements and objects on it, including a baby in a papoose, a peace pipe, a quiver of arrows, crossed tomahawks, a profile of a Native American male, and two ears of corn, the reverse side of the spoon is marked in raised letters "STERLING" and "R" "L" "B" in raided boxes for Rogers, Lunt, and Bowlen. For other souvenir spoons of the Old Indian House, see HD 72.124 and HD 2002.33. In 1902, George C. Lunt, an engraver in the A .F. Towle & Son company, bought the business and renamed it Rogers, Lunt and Bowlen Co. The company has remained in the Lunt family hands since the founding. In 1935, the name was changed to Lunt Silversmiths, and operated in the Greenfield Factory until the company folded in 2010.
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