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

Teaspoon

Manufacturer Skinner and Sweet

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1840

MediumSilver

DimensionsOverall: 6 in. (15.2 cm)

InscribedStamped in a rectangle, back of shoulders: Skinner and Sweet.

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number88.48

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DescriptionFiddle-shaped forward bent handle with slight mid-rib and rounded shoulders with no drop and oval pointed bowl.

Published ReferencesLouise C. Belden, MARKS OF AMERICAN SILVERSMITHS IN THE INESON-BISSELL COLLECTION, (Charlottesville: U. Press of VA for the Henry Francis duPont Winterthur Museum, 1980), p. 384 for makers.