Description:
Silver tablespoon with an eliptical bowl and a rounded drop and 13-lobed shell on the back, straight hemispherical shaft tapered to wide upturned, rounded-end handle with a long midrib on front, which is marked "J:SNOW" in a rectangle fo for either Jeremiah Snow, Jr. (c.1705-after 1788) of Boston or his son, Jeremiah Snow, III (1735-1803) of Springfield,, and engraved "E * G" on the back of the handle. Kane notes that three generations of silversmiths named Jeremiah Snow (Jr., III, IV) have not been clearly differentiated. Jeremiah Snow, Jr., was the son of Jeremiah Snow, Sr. (d. before 1724), a mariner of Philadelphia who moved to Charleston, Massachusetts, where he married his first wife, Wealthen Watter (Walters) in 1701, and his second wife, Mary Welsh(1688-1746) of Charleston, after Wealthen's death in 1704. Kane thinks it likely that Jeremiah Snow, Jr., was the son of Mary, and thus the first cousin of Boston jeweler John Welsh (1730-1812). If he was born in 1705, he would have completed his training by the late 1720s, and a Jeremiah Snow of Charleston, probably Jeremiah, Jr., first appears in the public record of 1730. Three initial and surname marks ("I.SNOW" in a rectangle; "J. SNOW" in a cartouche; and "I:SNOW" in a rectangle) may have been used by Jeremiah Snow, Jr.; Snow's son, Jeremiah III (1735-1803) who worked in Springfield, Massachusetts; and probably by his grandson, Jeremiah Snow IV (1764-c.1821-23) who became a clockmaker and goldsmith, working in Palmer, Wibraham, Amherst and Springfield, Massachusetts.
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