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Maker(s):Hitchcock, Eliakim
Culture:American (1726-1788)
Title:tablespoon
Date Made:1760-1770
Type:Food Service
Materials:silver
Place Made:United States; Connecticut; Cheshire
Measurements:overall: 7 7/8 in.; 20.0025 cm
Accession Number:  HD 1998.7.18
Credit Line:Gift of Carl R. Kossack
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Silver tablespoon with an elliptical bowl and double rounded drop over an eleven-lobed shell; thick hemispherical shaft to an upturned spatualte-end handle; and long midrib on the front of the handle. The spoon is marked "E+H" in a rectangle for Eliakem Hitchcock (1726-1788), and engraved with the initials "EE" in block letters on the back of the ribbed handle. Hitchcock worked in Cheshire, Connecticut,, from c.1757-1774 and 1788, and in New Haven, Connecticut, from c.1776-1787.

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