Description:
One of six coin silver tea spoons with a thin, pointed oval bowl, rounded shoulders, and upturned tapering, undulating fiddle-end handle with a midrib, which is marked “J. M. HINDS” in serrated rectangle and “WEBSTER” in roman capitals on the reverse of the handle, and engraved “Shumway” in script on the handle. Charles Lewis Shumway (1831-1906) married Achsah Ward (1831-1903) on November 22, 1860 and lived in Worcester, Massachusetts. Although not listed in the standard reference works on silversmiths, John Franklin Hinds (1819-1894) was listed as a jeweler and watchmaker in a store in the Spaulding block in Webster, Massachusetts, from about 1840-1880; the building still stands today. Hinds married Mary Ann Corbin (1822-1883) about 1842.

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