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Maker(s):Heath, John (possibly)
Culture:American (c.1721-c.1806)
Title:tablespoon
Date Made:ca. 1765
Type:Food Service
Materials:silver
Place Made:United States; New York; New York City
Measurements:overall: 8 in; 20.3 cm
Accession Number:  HD 1998.7.15
Credit Line:Gift of Carl R. Kossack
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Silver tablespoon with an elliptical bowl and a creased rounded drop; straight hemispherical shaft tapered to upturned rounded-end handle; and a short midrib on front of handle. The spoon is marked "JH" in script in square twice on back of handle possibly for John Heath (c.1721-c.1806), and engraved with the Initials "M / W*M" in block letters on the back of the handle. Heath became a freeman in New Yok in 1761, and in 1763, advertised in the "New York Mercury" as a "goldsmith, in Wall-street." This is not one of the marks known to have been used by John Heath.

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