Description:
One of six thin "coin" silver spoons with a pointed oval bowl and upturned fiddle handle, which are marked "WOODWORTH" in a rectangle on back of each handle for Earl Woodworth (1800-1864), a Springfield watchmaker and silversmith, and engraved with the initials "MST" in script. These spoons have a history of ownership in the Stebbins family, and may have been owned by Mary (Pierce) Stebbins (b.1820) who married of Samuel Stebbins (1818-1888) in Greenfield, Massachusetts, 1835. The monogram "MST" is not known to have been used by any members of the Stebbins family. "A penciled note dated May 1952 in the data file from Arthur R. Gary (b.1880) described these spoons: "These spoons belonged to Grandmother Stebbins "Towne" - wife of John Stebbins of Old Deerfield Mass also of Burlington Vermont. My mother was a Stebbins Arthur R. Garey." "Towne" has not yet been identified. See object data file more geneaological information.
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