Description:
Silver tablespoon with an elliptical bowl with a double rounded drop; hemispherical shaft to wide upturned rounded-end handle; long midrib, which is marked "EP" in an oval possibly for Elias Pelletreau (1726-1810), and engraved with the initials "B/ A H" in large block letters on back of handle. Although the formation of the "EP" is the same as in Pelletreau's mark, the "EP" is usually seen in a rectangle rather than an oval such as this example. After apprenticing to Simeon Soumaine (c.1685-1750) in NYC from 1741-1748 and admitted as a freeman of NY in 1750, Pelletreau retuned to his birthplace, Southampton, NY, where he established a shop in the early 1750s. A patriot during the Revolution, Pelletreau fled to Connecticut during the British occupation of Long Island in 1776 and worked in Simsbury and Saybrook, Connecticut, until 1782 when he returned to Southampton.
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