Description:
Silver teaspoon with a pointed ocal bowl, pointed shoulders, and fiddle handle, which is marked "BIRGE BRACKETT & CO" in a rectangle for the partnership of John Birge (1780-1859) and Horace D. Brackett (w.c.1811-c.1856), and engraved with the initials "SH" in script on the front of the handle The son of John Birge (b.c.1727), a hatter who moved to Deerfield from Northampton, and Esther Birge (1734-1803), John Birge Jr. advertised in the "Greenfield Gazette"in 1805 as a watchmaker, and "also makes and keeps on hand silver spoons and tablespoons, gold beads, etc." By 1811, he had moved to Brattleboro where he was advertising in the "Washingtonian" for jewelry and silver and plated spoons. Horace Brackett worked in Brattleboro from about 1811 to 1856; the Birge/Brackette partnership of "Birge, Brackett & Company" was formed sometime between 1811-1841, and became "Horace D. Brackett" in 1842.
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