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Maker(s):Munsell, Guy C.
Culture:American (1809-1884)
Title:salt spoon
Date Made:1835-1850
Type:Food Service
Materials:silver
Place Made:United States; Massachusetts; Northampton
Measurements:overall: 3 5/8 in x 7/8 in x 1/4 in; 9.2 cm x 2.2 cm x .6 cm
Accession Number:  HD 89.032.1
Credit Line:Hall and Kate Peterson Fund for Minor Antiques
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
One of two silver salt spoons with a pointed oval bowl, rounded shoulders, and fiddle-end handle, which is marked "G.C. MUNSELL" in a rectangle for Guy C. Munsell (1809-1884), and engraved with the initials "RJW" on the front of the handle. The daughter of Edward Jackson of Newtown, Rebecca Jackson (1799-1883) married Ephraim Williams (1797-1870) of Deerfield in 1822. Rebecca and Ehraim had a daughter, Rebecca Jackson Williams (1832-1904) who became the third wife of Alfred Russell Field (1815-1870) in 1859. Munsell worked as a jeweler in Greenfield from c.1835-1850. In 1836, he married Amanda Day (b.1812) and they lived on a local farm. They moved to Amherst, Massachusetts, after 1850, and Guy Munsell was listed on subsequent census records as a farmer in Amherst.

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