New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Salt Spoon

Manufacturer Edward Augustus Tyler (American)

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1850

MediumSilver

DimensionsOverall: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)

InscribedStamped, back of handle: E.A. Tyler. Monogrammed in script on back: MB (conjoined).

Credit LineBequest of Florence Smith

Object number0.1971.4A

Not on view

DescriptionFiddle handle with flaring shoulders and no drop. Slightly forward bent.

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.