Description:
Silver tablespoon with a rounded, down-turned handle end, feathered edge along the length of the handle, elongated oval bowl, and oval drop and foliate scroll on the back of the bowl, which is marked "B. PIERPONT" on the back in a shaped rectangle for Benjamin Pierpont (1730-1797), and engraved "Frederick Goddard Tuckerman" on the back of the handle and "FGT" on the front of the handle. Born in Boston, Frederick Tuckerman (1821-1873) moved to Greenfield, Massachusetts, in 1847, where he published a volumn of poems, titled "Poems" (Boston: Ticknor and Feilds, 1864), which included "And change with hurried hand has swept these scenes", "November", "April", "Inspiration", etc. Harvard has a collection of his correspondence from 1833-1873 with Tuckerman family members; two typed copies of letters to Alfred Tennyson thanking him for his hospitality and acknowledging his happiness at their acquaintance; and a 1868 letter from Sophia Amelia Peabody Hawthorn offering to sell the family's home, Wayside, to Tuckerman.
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