Artist/Maker Whiting Manufacturing Co. (active 1866 - 1926)

Nutpick

1866–1900

Place madeProvidence, Rhode Island, United States, North America

Silver

Overall: 1/8 × 5 1/4 × 3/8 in. (0.3 × 13.3 × 1 cm)

Bequest of Catharine Augusta De Peyster

1911.64

DescriptionCast silver nutpick with a flat arched hand with stamped circular decoration and a shell finial; twisted handle joint and a flat curved blade coming to a point at the end; blade engraved, "E V R de P" in script; maker's marks stamped on the underside of the blade.

Markingsengraved: on the blade: "E V R de P" in script stamped: on the undeside of the blade: "W" in an oval held by a dragon and lion headed griffin, beides "STERLING/ 1945"

ClassificationsSILVER