Child's spoon and fork

ca. 1914

Place madeProvidence, Rhode Island, United States, North America

Silver

Part (spoon): 6 x 1 1/4 x 7/8 in. (15.2 x 3.2 x 2.2 cm)
Part (fork): 6 1/8 x 7/8 x 3/4 in. (15.6 x 2.2 x 1.9 cm)

Gift of Louise Stafford Gilder

INV.14305ab

Descriptionsilver child's spoon and fork in the Heraldic pattern with upturned fiddle handles with wavy tips and repoussé chased foliate scrolls around an armor helmet and a reserve engraved, "LOUISE" in script; elliptical bowl on the spoon; four curved tines on the fork; maker's marks stamped on the underside of the handles.
"Heraldic" pattern from the Whiting Manufacturing Co., issued in 1880.

Markingsengraved: on the handles: "LOUISE" in script stamped: on the undersides of the handles: "STERLING" in a rectangle, "W" in a circle beside a two headed griffen, "THEODORE B. STARR"

ClassificationsSILVER