Salt Spoon

Paul Revere, II, American (worked Boston, Massachusetts), 1735 - 1818

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about 1775

Silver

Overall: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)

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

M.970.74

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 stem, in script: PR [in rectangle]; engraved on tip of handle: ABH [B superscript, 3 dots in a triangular pattern below]

Exhibition History

American Silver, Barrows Print Room, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 27-November 3, 1974.

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

Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 12, 2009-present.

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, July 28, 1981-June 7, 1982.

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

New England Silver at Dartmouth: A Tribute to Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 3-August 20, 1989, no. 65.

Paul Revere Exhibition, Worchester Art Museum, Worchester, Massachusetts, September 14-October 24, 1965.

The Rococo Style in New England Silver, Harrington Silver Case, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 13, 2012.

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. 65.

Kathryn C. Buhler, Massachusetts Silver in the Frank L. and Louise C. Harrington Collection, Worcester, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers, 1965, p.104-105, ill. p. 104.

Paul Revere Exhibition Catalogue, Worcester Art Museum, September 14-October 24, 1965.

Philip H. Hammerslough, American Silver Collected by Philip H. Hammerslough, Hartford, Connecticut: Privately Printed, 1958, Vol.1., p 121.

Patricia E. Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewlers, Hanover: University Press of New England, p. 795-823, 1998.

Provenance

Alden Bass and Helen Tyler-Paul Revere made them a pair of salt spoons according to his daybook. Fits engraving(speculation). Ex Collectors: George Christian Gebelein (1878-1945), J. Herbert Gebelein (1906-1986); Philip Haas Hammerslough (1894-1978); sold to Frank L. Harrington, Sr. (1902-1988) and Louise Cronin Harrington (1904-2000), Worcester, Massachusetts, October 1960; given to present collection, 1970.

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