Description:
One of two cast bronze spoon molds for the use of making pewter spoons, the molds are fashioned in the negative of a spoon on the interior and are very smooth, the exterior of the mold appears to be very battered over the years from hard use, each side of the spoon mold has a short bronze flange which would have fit into some sort of handle attachments; the spoon mold would have produced a tablespoon with a pronounced mid rib to the handle and a rat tail on the back of the spoon bowl, or the so-called Hanoverian style rounded end spoon. Spoon mold 2014.19.61.2 has a white painted number on the handle "#458-1"? and an attached white paper label reading "End Shop/#458.1/ Spoon Mold".

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