Souvenir spoon
Classification:
Date:
1895/96
Medium:
Silver
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 3/4 x 1 x 1/2 in. ( 12.1 x 2.5 x 1.3 cm )
Description:
Silver souvenir spoon with plain oval bowl, narrow rectangular handle with twisted center, and cast finial in the form of London Bridge on an open triangular base with a sphere at the center; stamped makers' marks and hallmarks on handle.
Credit Line:
Gift of Florence Rogers Dietrich
Object Number:
1944.57c
Marks:
stamped: on back of handle: "U [lion] [leopard head]" and "CS*FS"
stamped: on side of handle: "RD No 228-777"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1896
eMuseum Object ID:
40715
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Souvenir spoon
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1891
Medium:
Silver
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 1/2 x 1 x 5/8 in. ( 11.4 x 2.5 x 1.6 cm )
Description:
Cast silver souvenir spoon with view of capitol building in Washington, D.C., on inside of pointed oval bowl; obverse of handle with hatchet motif, profile bust of George Washington in oval frame, and full-length figure of Washington with hatchet in hand, standing next to a cherry tree; reverse of handle with view of Mount Vernon.
Credit Line:
Gift of Florence Rogers Dietrich
Object Number:
1944.57b
Marks:
in relief: on reverse: "STERLING"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1891
eMuseum Object ID:
40714
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Souvenir spoon
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1900
Medium:
Silver
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 3/8 x 7/8 x 5/8 in. ( 11.1 x 2.2 x 1.6 cm )
Description:
Silver souvenir spoon with engraved inscription, "Meet me at the Fountain," on inside of pointed oval bowl; upturned spatulate handle with embossed scrolling leaf design with beading on obverse.
Credit Line:
Gift of Henry F. von Drehle
Object Number:
1947.135
Marks:
engraved: on inside of bowl: "Meet me / at the / Fountain"
stamped: on reverse: "1847 ROGERS BROS A1" followed by circular impression with illegible inscription
Gallery Label:
The International Silver Co. was incorporated by a number of independent New England silversmiths in 1898, after which date the company continued to use the marks of its predecessors. The International Silver Co. mark itself was not used on flatware until after 1928 (see Dorothy T. Rainwater, "Enyclopedia of American Silver Manufacturers," p. 77).
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
40713
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Trowel in box
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1870
Medium:
Silver, ivory; leather, velvet, silk
Dimensions:
Box: 1 5/8 x 13 3/8 x 4 1/2 in. ( 4.1 x 34 x 11.4 cm )
Overall (trowel): 12 1/2 x 4 3/8 x 1 3/8 in. (31.8 x 11.1 x 3.
Description:
Cast silver and ivory trowel with a turned ivory handle, a tapered cylindrical handle socket, and a curved stem with a diamond-shaped joint; diamond shaped blade engraved, "PRESENTED TO/ Hon. A. Oakey HAll./ AT THE/ LAYING OF THE CORNER STONE/ OF THE MT. SINAI HOSPITAL/ BY THE DIRECTORS,/ Benjamin Nathan, President/ Emanuel B. Hail, Vice President/ Louis May, Treasurer/ Samuel A. Lewis, Hon, Secrtary./ John M Lawrence, Harris Aronson, Henry Gittesman,/ Lewis Fatman, S. Sommesick, J.L. Abecasis,/ A. S. Rosenbaum, Max Stadler./ NEW YORK, MAY 25, 1870." in script, gothic script and roman letters; underside of the blade engraved in Hebrew; maker's marks stamped on the underside of the blade. Long, brown, oval case with a slightly domed lid and metal hook and eye closures lined with blue velvet on the base and blue silk in the lid.
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Katherine M. Harvey
Object Number:
1959.79b.1-2
Marks:
engraved: on the blade: "PRESENTED TO/ Hon. A. Oakey HAll./ AT THE/ LAYING OF THE CORNER STONE/ OF THE MT. SINAI HOSPITAL/ BY THE DIRECTORS,/ Benjamin Nathan, President/ Emanuel B. Hail, Vice President/ Louis May, Treasurer/ Samuel A. Lewis, Hon, Secrt
Gallery Label:
On May 25, 1870, a distinguished group of New Yorkers gathered to lay the cornerstone of Mount Sinai Hospital on Lexington Avenue between Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Streets. The cornerstone laying was a momentous ceremony that included the placement of a tin box containing New York newspapers, American and Jewish coins and currency, and official hospital documents into the new hospital's cornerstone. Following placement of the box, this silver trowel, engraved with the Hebrew translation of "House of the Sick," was presented to New York City Mayor A. Oakey Hall by the president of the hospital's board of directors, Benjamin Nathan.
Provenance:
Abraham Oakey Hall (1826-1898), who married (1st) Katherine Louise Barnes (1823-1897); to their son Herbert Oakey Hall (1862-1944), who married Marie Jeanette Harvey (1873-1958); bequeathed by Mrs. Marie Harvey Hall to her niece Katherine Medary Harvey (1888-1963), the donor.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1870
eMuseum Object ID:
40711
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Trowel
Classification:
Date:
1903
Medium:
Silver, wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 1/8 x 4 x 2 1/4 in. ( 30.8 x 10.2 x 5.7 cm )
Description:
Cast silver and wooden presentation trowel with a tapered, cylindrical handle with a silver tip, a tapered cylindrical handle socket and a curved stem with a triangular joint; triangular blade engraved, "With this trowel/ The Hon. Seth Low/ Mayor of the City of New York/ laid the corner stone/ of the/ new building of the/ New York Historical Society/ Central Park West/ 76th & 77th Street/ on/ November Seventeenth/ MCMIII" in script and gothic script; engraved on the underside of the blade, "Building Comittee/ Samuel Verplanck Hoffman/ President/ Sydney H. Carney Jr./ Recording Secretary/ Frank Tifford/ James William Beekman/ Clarence Storm/ York & Sawyer/ Architects/ MCMIII" in script; maker's marks stamped on the underside of the blade.
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1903.16
Marks:
engraved: on the blade: "With this trowel/ The Hon. Seth Low/ Mayor of the City of New York/ laid the corner stone/ of the/ new building of the/ New York Historical Society/ Central Park West/ 76th & 77th Street/ on/ November Seventeenth/ MCMIII" in scrip
Gallery Label:
This presentation trowel was used by Seth Low, the mayor of New York City, to lay the corner stone of the present New-York Historical Society, November 17, 1903.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1903
eMuseum Object ID:
40709
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Trowel
Classification:
Date:
1890
Medium:
Silver, ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 3/8 x 3 7/8 x 2 1/4 in. ( 31.4 x 9.8 x 5.7 cm )
Description:
Cast silver and ivory trowel with a tapered, cylindrical ivory handle with a carved, spiraling midband, a molded silver tip and a tapered and bent stem with a fan-shaped joint; diamond-shaped blade with a long pointed tip, a wheel turned border and the engraving, "PRESENTED BY/ DAWSON AND ARCHER/ TO THE/ HON HUGH J. GRANT/ MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY./ on the occasion of laying the/ CORNER-STONE/ OF THE/ NEW CRIMINAL COURT BUILDING/ Oct. 25. 1890." in block letters and gothic script; maker's marks stamped on the underside of the blade.
Object Number:
INV.14221
Marks:
engraved: on the blade: "PRESENTED BY/ DAWSON AND ARCHER/ TO THE/ HON HUGH J. GRANT/ MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY./ on the occasion of laying the/ CORNER-STONE/ OF THE/ NEW CRIMINAL COURT BUILDING/ Oct. 25. 1890." in block letters and gothic script
stamped: on
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1890
eMuseum Object ID:
40708
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Teaspoon
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1830
Medium:
Silver
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/4 x 1 1/8 x 3/4 in. ( 13.3 x 2.9 x 1.9 cm )
Description:
silver teaspoon with a downturned fiddle handle with a short midrib on the underside and the engraved initials, "SG" in foliate script; pointed oval bowl with a broad drop; maker's mark stamped on the underside of the handle.
Credit Line:
Gift of Dorothy C. Barck
Object Number:
1954.155
Marks:
engraved: on the handle: "SG" in foliate script
stamped: on the underside of the handle: "G. Gordon" in script in a rectangle
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1830
eMuseum Object ID:
40694
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Souvenir spoon
Classification:
Date:
1892 - 1894
Medium:
Silver
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 5/8 x 1 1/4 x 1 1/8 in. ( 14.3 x 3.2 x 2.9 cm )
Description:
silver souvenir spoon with engraved initials inside gilded oval bowl; handle finial in the form of a portrait bust of Robert Ingersoll with crossed torches, inscribed "REASON" and "LIBERTY," below base; stamped maker's mark on back of bowl.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. Walston S. Brown
Object Number:
1987.4c
Marks:
engraved: inside bowl: "K.G.J.B."
in relief: on obverse of handle: "REASON" and "LIBERTY"
stamped: on reverse of bowl: "OTTO WETTSTEIN / [lion][anchor]G / STERLING"
engraved: on reverse of bowl: "Aug. 7, 1894"
stamped: on reverse of handle: "PAT. 1892
Gallery Label:
In the 1890s and early years of the twentieth century thousands of souvenir spoons were made by dozens of United States manufacturers. Gorham, the largest manufacturer of sterling flatwares in the U.S. at the turn of the century, dominated the souvenir spoon market almost from the beginning. (See Charles H. Carpenter, Jr., "Gorham Silver, 1831-1981," pp. 180-199.)
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1894
eMuseum Object ID:
40693
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Souvenir spoon
Classification:
Date:
1892-1895
Medium:
Silver
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 5/8 x 1 1/4 x 7/8 in. ( 14.3 x 3.2 x 2.2 cm )
Description:
silver souvenir spoon with almond-shaped bowl with flanged edges and engraved initials inside; handle finial in the form of a portrait bust of Robert Ingersoll with crossed torches, inscribed "REASON" and "LIBERTY," below base; stamped maker's mark on back of bowl.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. Walston S. Brown
Object Number:
1987.4b
Marks:
in relief: on obverse of handle: "REASON" and "LIBERTY"
engraved: on inside of bowl: "E.G.B."
stamped: on reverse of bowl: "OTTO WETTSTEIN / [lion][anchor]G / STERLING"
Gallery Label:
In the 1890s and early years of the twentieth century thousands of souvenir spoons were made by dozens of United States manufacturers. Gorham, the largest manufacturer of sterling flatwares in the U.S. at the turn of the century, dominated the souvenir spoon market almost from the beginning. (See Charles H. Carpenter, Jr., "Gorham Silver, 1831-1981," pp. 180-199.)
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1895
eMuseum Object ID:
40692
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Sauce ladle
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1840
Medium:
Silver
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 x 2 3/4 x 1 1/4 in. ( 20.3 x 7 x 3.2 cm )
Description:
Silver ladle with an upturned fiddle thread handle with short midribs on both sides and the engraving, "MJS" in script; sugar loaf shoulders and a horizontal elliptical bowl; makers' marks stamped on the underside of the handle.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Constance Schermerhorn Skillin
Object Number:
1937.205
Marks:
engraved: on the handle: "MJS" in script
stamped: on the underside of the handle: "G. W. & H." in a rectangle, bust in an oval and an eagle in an oval
Gallery Label:
This ladle descended to the donor through Jonathan Dayton Williamson and Louise Schermerhorn.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1845
eMuseum Object ID:
40691
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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