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Lot Essay
Patricia Kane (op. cit.) ascribes the commission of these spoons, from a set of twelve, to Andrew Eliot and/or the Harvard College Class of 1771.
For more on the topic of Harvard tutorial silver, see Janine E. Skerry, "Ancient and Valuable Gifts: Silver at Colonial Harvard," New England Silver & Silversmithing 1620-1815, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 2001.
For more on the topic of Harvard tutorial silver, see Janine E. Skerry, "Ancient and Valuable Gifts: Silver at Colonial Harvard," New England Silver & Silversmithing 1620-1815, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 2001.