This well-used pair of spoons bear the initials of Moses Lippit (1668-after 1714) and his wife, Sarah Throckmorton (1674-after 1728), of Middletown, New Jersey. The Lippits may have received the spoons as a wedding gift at the time of their marriage in 1697 or acquired them shortly thereafter. The spoons are decorated with Baroque-style foliate decoration on the bowls and the couple's initials on the handle. The placement of the decoration on the reverse side reflects the colonial custom of placing spoons on the table face down.

This spoon was made for Johannes Schenck and his wife, Maria Magdalena De Haes, who married in the Netherlands in 1683 and shortly thereafter emigrated to New Amsterdam. The couple settled in Flatbush, Brooklyn by 1691 and in 1712 Schenck purchased a mill plantation of approximately 115 acres in Bushwick. Spoons of this type, with broad oval bowls and cast handles, based on Dutch prototypes, were produced by New York silversmiths of Dutch descent from the 1680s until around 1700. About a dozen of these rare spoons survive, but this is the only example embellished with a visual pun referring to its owner. Engraved on the reverse of the spoon bowl is Schenck's personal mark: a shapely coffeepot with steam issuing enticingly from its spout. The mark is a creative reference to Schenck's surname, which means to pour or decant.

This capacious cann, made to hold a quart of liquid such as beer or ale, is singular among extant examples marked by Bancroft Woodcock for its unusually large size. Woodcock, a Quaker silversmith of Irish descent, established his business in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1754 and enjoyed a long and successful career spanning four decades. The cann was probably originally made for George Read (1733-1798), the Delaware lawyer, patriot, and signer of the Declaration of Independence, through his mother, Elizabeth Rhodes Fisher (1828-1878).

These salt spoons were given to Marie Antoinette Baker Davis on the occassion of her marriage to Fellows Davis October 17, 1871.