FIVE FINE SILVER TABLESPOONS FROM THE SARGENT FAMILY

MAKER'S MARK OF PAUL REVERE, BOSTON, CIRCA 1770

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FIVE FINE SILVER TABLESPOONS FROM THE SARGENT FAMILY
Maker's Mark of Paul Revere, Boston, circa 1770
Each with feather-edge border on handle and scroll on back of bowl; four engraved with the crest of Sargent about script initial S, one with crest only; all engraved on the back of the handle with the crest of Duncan and motto; marked .REVERE on reverses; together with seven teaspoons by R. & W. Wilson engraved with the Duncan crest
8in. long; 7oz. (12)

来源

Capt. Winthrop Sargent (1753-1820) of Boston
By descent to the Duncan family of Massachusetts and to the present owner

拍品专文

Winthrop Sargent graduated from Harvard College in 1771, but joined the Continental Army as soon as the Revolution began. After the war, he embarked on a career as a territorial administrator, becoming secretary and de facto governor of the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio in 1787. He was twice wounded in the defeat of the Indians at Fort Recovery in 1791. In 1798, he became the first Governor of the Mississippi Territory.

Sargent was accomplished in a variety of intellectual areas, publishing works on forestry, meteorology, and earthquakes. In 1796 he wrote Papers Relative to Certain American Antiquities. He was a member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences, and the Massachusetts Historical Society.

See also the following lot.