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Maker(s):Harrington, Samuel
Culture:American (c.1820-after 1850)
Title:spoon
Date Made:1843-1850
Type:Food Service
Materials:silver
Place Made:United States; Massachusetts; Amherst
Measurements:overall: 6 in; 15.24 cm
Accession Number:  HD 61.582.2
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
One of two silver spoons with a small pointed oval bowl, rounded shoulders, and double-swell fiddle handle, which is marked "S. Harrington" in a rectangle for Samuel Harrington (c.1820-after 1850), and engraved with the initials "LCD" in script on the front of the handle. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Harrington was in partnership with Edward Prevear (c.1818-1899) in Amherst from 1841-1842, and married Prevear's sister, Caroline Prevear (1820-1905), in 1843. Harrington was listed in the 1850 US Census as a watchmaker in Amherst.

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