Collection Highlights
Artistic Houses: being a series of interior views of a number of the most beautiful and celebrated homes in the United States
Date:
1883 - 1884
Object Number:
PR.087.1.1.35.HURPAR
Medium:
Photogravure
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Souvenir spoon
Object Number:
INV.14021
Date:
ca. 1895
Medium:
Silver
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 1/2 x 7/8 x 5/8 in. ( 11.4 x 2.2 x 1.6 cm )
Marks:
in relief: on inside of bowl: "TO / COMMEMORATE / THE CAPTURE / OF LOUISBOURG / A.D. 1745 / ERECTED / BY THE SOCIETY / OF / COLONIAL / WARS / A.D. 1895"
stamped: on reverse: "J. CORNELIUS STERLING"
Description:
Silver souvenir spoon with relief inscription on inside of pointed oval bowl; obverse of handle with columnar monument and "LOUISBOURG" in relief; stamped maker's(?) mark on reverse.
Credit Line:
Gift of Howland Pell, 1904
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
