Tablespoon (one of a pair)

Thomas Revere, American, 1739 - 1817

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about 1789-1803

Silver

Overall: 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Louise C. and Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924

M.970.71

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Food Service

Research Area

Decorative Arts

Not on view

Inscriptions

Marked on back of handle: TR [in rectangle]; engraved on handle, within light dotted ellipse: FCC (or HCC?) [in monogram]

Exhibition History

Colonial Days, Brick Store Museum, Kennebunkport, Maine, July 30-August 3,1963.

Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 16-June 2, 1978.

Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 30-June 21, 1979.

Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 1-30, 1964.

Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 13, 1976.

Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 15-August 15, 1976.

New England Silver at Dartmouth College: A Tribute to Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 3-August 20, 1989, no.69.

Publication History

Barbara J. MacAdam, New England Silver at Dartmouth College: A Tribute to Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1989, no.69.

The Heritage Foundation Collection of Silver. Herny Flynt and Martha Grady Fales. page 310

Provenance

Owned Firestone and Parson, Inc., Jewelers, Boston, Massachusetts; sold to Frank L. Harrington, Sr. (1902-1988) and Louise Cronin Harrington (1904-2000), Worcester, Massachusetts, December 1, 1966; given to present collection, 1970.

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