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

Spoon

Manufacturer Howard and Company

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1879

MediumSilver

DimensionsOverall: 16 1/2 in. (41.9 cm)

InscribedStamped on back of handle: 35 sterling Howard & Co. & a mark formed of a rectangle, circle & diamond.

Credit LineGift of Admiral W.P. Chilton in Memory of Elizabeth Newcomer Chilton

Object number87.74

Not on view

DescriptionClaret spoon; long twisted handle with small oval spoon at a right angle. Handle backward bent and terminates with broad ajoure Rococo Revival motif of flowers and scroll work.

Published ReferencesD.T. Rainwater, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN SILVER MANUFACTURERS (NY: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1975), p. 74.