Artist/Maker
Whiting Manufacturing Co.
(active 1866 - 1926)
Crumber
ca. 1895
Place madeProvidence, Rhode Island, United States, North America
Silver
Overall: 11 1/4 x 2 5/8 x 1 3/8 in. ( 28.6 x 6.7 x 3.5 cm )
Gift of Wilmot T. Cox
1942.387
DescriptionCast silver table crumber in the "Imperial Queen" pattern with slightly upturned double-swell fiddle handle decorated foliate scroll border and shell ornament at the tip and joint; handle engraved with cipher "MDBM" in script characters; blade has long lower straight edge and scalloped upper edge with scrolled rim; repoussé chased shell and scroll decoration along blade face; maker's hallmarks stamped along underside of handle stem.Pattern issued in 1895.
Markingsengraved: on the handle: cipher "MDBM" in script characters
stamped: on the underside of the handle: "W" in oval surround in arms of two-headed griffen, gothic "W" in circular surround, and "STERLING PAT 1893" incuse
ClassificationsSILVER
