Salt spoon
Manufacturer
Benjamin C. Hopper
CultureAmerican
Date1844-1850
MediumSilver
DimensionsOverall: 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm)
InscribedStamped on the back with what appears to be a crowned shield in a rectangle/"coin/B.C. Hopper". Monogrammed front handle "PSR" in script.
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number86.371
Not on view
Published ReferencesRalph M. & Terry H. Kovel, A DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN SILVER, PEWTER, AND SILVER PLATE, (Crown Publishers: New York, 1961), p. 141 for maker and date.
ca. 1830
