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Spoon
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Spoon

16th-17th century · pewter (overall material)

From the collection of National Museum of American History. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Puritan type rattail spoon with almost circular, fig-shaped bowl and straight handle, flattened hexagonal in section with squared end. Face of bowl below juncture with handle is struck once with touchmark of "HK" in an imperial crown above an undulating sunburst motif. One of five matching spoons, DL*38840, 3884041, 388048, 388049 and 388050.

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Credit lineSpoon. 16th-17th century. National Museum of American History, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood. CC0.

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