Artist/Maker
Whiting Manufacturing Co.
(active 1866 - 1926)
Retailer
Theodore B. Starr
(active 1877 - 1924)
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)
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