A SET OF THREE SILVER TABLESPOONS

Details

A SET OF THREE SILVER TABLESPOONS
MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL REVERE II, BOSTON, PROBABLY 1789

With oval bowls and upturned rounded handles, each engraved on front with script monogram SSP, marked on reverses with Buhler Mark e--8 5/8in. long
(7 oz.) (3)

Provenance

Samuel and Sarah Parkman of Boston
Daniel Parkman, son
Mary Herriot Parkman Shimmin, daughter; thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1953

Lot Essay

These spoons are almost certainly those recorded in Paul Revere's Daybook in August, 1789 (see illustration). Parkman's other orders describe teaspoons engraved with cyphers and various repairs.

Photo Caption: Entry from Paul Revere's Daybook, recording Samuel Parkman's order of twelve large silver spoons engraved with cyphers, August 1789, vol. I, p. 80.