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

Salt Spoon

Manufacturer Edward Augustus Tyler (American)

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1850

MediumSilver

DimensionsOverall: 4 in. (10.2 cm)

InscribedOn back of handle: E.A. Tyler, N. Orleans

Credit LineBequest of Florence Smith

Object number0.1971.3

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DescriptionThread, fiddle handle with flaring shoulders and long drip. Slightly forward bent with an 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.