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

Butter spreader

CultureEnglish
Date1801
MediumSilver
DimensionsOverall: 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm)
InscribedStamped on blade with hallmarks -- leopard's head crowned missing. Engraved with script initials JBJ and date 1835.
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.3147
On View
Not on view
DescriptionShort spatulate blade and tapered handle with incised lines.

New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
James M. Freeman
ca. 1840
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
1855-1856
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Jehu & W.L. Ward
No Date
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
19th century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Fenton Brothers
ca. 1860
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
John H. Tyler & Co.
ca. 1840
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Gorham Manufacturing Company
1864
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Towle Silversmiths
ca. 1912
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Benjamin Wade Owen Sr.
1960s
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera- 2007.
Siegfried Bing
ca. 1895
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
ca. 1930