Description:
One of six silver spoons (HD 83.010-HD 83.015) with downturned fiddle-end handles, pointed shoulders, and pointed oval bowls, which are marked "J.O. & W. PITKIN" and "J.H. NORTON" in rectangles, and engraved with the initials "EG" in script on the handle, probably for Emeline Granger (see below). The donor, Mrs. Arthur Brown, inherited several silver pieces including these spoons from Miss Susan Tiffany of Blandford, Massachusetts, in 1966; the spoons descended in the Slocum-Granger family of Connecticut and Massachusetts to Miss Susan Tiffany. In 1817, Rebecca Slocum (1795-1872) of Tolland, Connecticut, married George Washington Granger (1794-1855) of Tolland Turnpike in Hampden County, Massachusetts. They had two children - Emeline Granger (1818-1912) who married Danial Herde Mills (1818-1896) in 1842 and moved to New York City; and George (b.1821) who married Eliza M. Bird in 1843. See sauce ladle (HD 77.081) and mustard ladle (HD 77.082) from the same family..John Owen Pitkin (1803-1891) was a pioneer in manufacturing solid silverware, starting his business in 1826 in East Hartford, and was in partnership with his brother Walter Pitkin (1808-1885) as J. O. & W. Pitkin from 1830-1840 when John left. Walter continued the business until 1880 when fire destroyed the factory. Nothing is currently known about J.H. Norton, but Belden lists him as working in Hartford from 1820-1860, and Ensko notes that he worked with Walter Pitkin in 1843. The E.H. Williams 1838 inventory lists: "9 Silver Tea Spoons Small ... 4.50."
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