Northend, Mary Harrod, 1850- · Boston, Little, Brown, and company · leaf 388
e brought from England with othertreasures of family silver, and are excellent ex-amples of seventeenth-century ware. Up to thattime, teaspoons had been made with very deepround or pear-shaped bowls and very short handles.Toward the middle of the seventeenth century,they assumed more nearly their… … I^^^^^E dh ^^B^^t^^^ o in J3 OLD SILVER slender handle. It will be observed that manyof our earliest teaspoons were no larger than thepresent after-dinner coffee spoons. It is probable that no other type of spoon pos-sesses the interest, not to say the money value,of the old Apostle spoons, which…
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