New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Teaspoon

Manufacturer Edward Augustus Tyler (American)

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1850

MediumSilver

DimensionsOverall: 5 in. (12.7 cm)

InscribedOn back of handle: E.A. Tyler; back of each spoon in monogrammed script: JAT

Credit LineBequest of Florence Smith

Object number0.1971.8E

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DescriptionOne of a set of five teaspoons; thread, fiddle handle with slightly forward bend, long drop and oval bowl.

Published ReferencesLouise C. Belden. _Marks of American Silversmiths in the Ineson-Bissell Collection_. Charlottesville: U. Press of VA for the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1980, p. 415 for marks.