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Maker(s):Welles, Leonard T. & Co
Culture:American
Title:spoon
Date Made:circa 1850
Type:Food Service
Materials:silver
Place Made:United States; Connecticut; Hartford
Measurements:overall: 5 7/8 in; 14.9225 cm
Accession Number:  HD 83.008
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. Arthur M. Brown
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
One of two silver spoons with a fiddle-end hand and pointed oval bowl, which is marked "L.T. WELLES & CO" in roman letters in a rectangle and an eagle in a rounded rectangle and five-pointed star in a circle for Leonard Talcott Welles (1818-1876), and engraved with the initials "NSB" in script on the handle. Mrs. Arthur M. Brown gave four silver spoons (HD 67.170, 77.144, 83.008-.009) with this mark and initials to HD, which had belonged to Susan E. Tiffany whose family came early to Blandford, Mass. Welles worked in Hartford as a silversmith, jeweler, and watchmaker as "L.T. Wells & Co." from 1841-1865.

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