Tablespoon
Manufacturer
Root, Chaffee, Baird
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1840
MediumSilver
DimensionsOverall: 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm)
InscribedStamped on back of handle: An eagle and in a rectangle: Root Chaffee Baird. Engraved "MJ Walker" in script on front of handle.
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number88.49
Not on view
DescriptionForward bent fiddle handle with slight mid-rib and rounded shoulders, no drop and oval pointed bowl.Published ReferencesR.M. & T.H. Kovel, A DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN SILVER PEWTER AND SILVER PLATE (NY: Crown Publishers, 1979), p. 235 for makers.
ca. 1830
ca. 1830
