Description: One of two silver spoons with a fiddle-end hand and pointed oval bowl, which is marked "L.T. WELLES & CO" in roman letters in a rectangle and an eagle in a rounded rectangle and five-pointed star in a circle for Leonard Talcott Welles (1818-1876), and engraved with the initials "NSB" in script on the handle. Mrs. Arthur M. Brown gave four silver spoons (HD 67.170, 77.144, 83.008-.009) with this mark and initials to HD, which had belonged to Susan E. Tiffany whose family came early to Blandford, Mass. Welles worked in Hartford as a silversmith, jeweler, and watchmaker as "L.T. Wells & Co." from 1841-1865.
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