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Maker(s):Tweedy & Barrows
Culture:American
Title:tablespoon
Date Made:ca. 1850
Type:Food Service
Materials:silver
Place Made:United States; Connecticut; Norwich
Measurements:overall: 8 11/16 in; 22.06625 cm
Accession Number:  HD 76.053
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Silver tablespoon with a fiddle-end handle, rounded shoulders and pointed oval bowl, which is marked "TWEEDY & BARROWS." Tweedy and Barrows were listed as dry goods dealers at 117 Main Street, Norwich, in the 1849 New-England Mercantile Union Business Directory. Barrows may have been silversmith and jeweler, James Madison Barrows (b.1809), who born in Mansfield, Connecticut; worked in Tolland, Connecticut, by 1828, and listed there in the "American Advertising Directory" for 1831 as a manufacturer of silver spoons and dealer in watches and jewelry; and listed as a merchant in NYC in 1850.

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