Trowel

1904

Place madeProvidence, Rhode Island, United States, North America

Silver, ivory

Overall: 1 1/2 × 12 1/4 × 4 1/8 in. (3.8 × 31.1 × 10.5 cm)

Gift of George B. McClellan

1922.107

DescriptionCast silver and ivory trowel with a tapered, cylindrical ivory handle with a molded silver tip, a tapered handle socket and a tapered and curved stem with a triangular joint; diamond-shaped blade with a long pointed tip and an engraved foilate border; blade engraved, "PRESENTED BY THE / 69TH REGIMENT, N.G.N.Y. / Honorable Geo. B. McClellan / MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY / on the occassion of / laying the corner stone / of its new armory/ Lexington Avenue, / 25th-26th Streets / April 23rd / 1904" in block letters, script and gothic script; maker's marks stamped on the underside of the blade.

Markingsengraved: on the blade: "PRESENTED BY THE / 69TH REGIMENT, N.G.N.Y. / Honorable Geo. B. McClellan / MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY / on the occassion of / laying the corner stone / of its new armory/ Lexington Avenue, / 25th-26th Streets / April 23rd / 1904" in block letters, script and gothic script stamped: on the underside of the blade: lion passant in a chamfered rectangle, anchor in a shield, gothic "G" in a chamfered rectangle over "STERLING/ 2085"

ClassificationsSILVER