Description:
Silver tablespoon with a rounded-end handle and oval bowl with a long rounded-end drop, which marked "MOULTON" incuse on the back of the handle. Ebenezer Moulton (1768-1824) came from a family of silversmiths, starting with his grandfather, William (1720-c.1793), and granduncle, Joseph (1724-1795), his father, Joseph (1744-1816), and continuing with his three brothers, William (1772-1861), Enoch (1780-1820), and Abel (1784-1840), and his nephew, Joseph (1814-1903). With so many makers of the same name and the frequent omission of the first initial on the mark, there has been much confusion in the identification of the stamps. After training in his father's shop in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Ebenezer worked for much of his career in Boston starting about 1790 before returning to Newburyport about 1820, where he worked until his death in 1824. In Boston, he advertised "an extensive assortment of English made Silver Plate...., Jeweler's Tools, Flattened Mills"; in Newburyport, his shop had six counter cases and eight other cases for the display of goods, which included 1,027 onces of wrought silver. Condition: The corner of the bowl is repaired.
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