Description:
Silver sauce ladle with a downturned fiddle-end handle, rounded shoulders, and horizontal elliptical bowl, which is marked "BOLLES&CHI..." for Edward W. Bolles (1797-1882) and Lucius Bolles Childs (1809-1843) who were in partnership in Hartford, Connecticut, around 1840; and engraved with the initials "RG" in script, probably for Rebecca Granger (see below). The donor, Mrs. Arthur Brown, inherited several silver pieces including this ladle from Miss Susan Tiffany of Blandford, Massachusetts, in 1966; the ladle descended in the Slocum-Granger family of Connecticut and Massachusetts to Miss Susan Tiffany. In 1817, Rebecca Slocum (1795-1872) of Tolland, Connecticut, married George Washington Granger (1794-1855) of Tolland Turnpike in Hampden County, Massachusetts. They had two children - Emeline Granger (1818-1912) who married Danial Herde Mills (1818-1896) in 1842 and moved to New York City; and George (b.1821) who married Eliza M. Bird in 1843. See mustard ladle (HD 77.082) and spoons (HD 83.010-105) from the same family.
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