Artist/Maker Albert Coles (1815 - 1885)

Child's fork and spoon

ca. 1840–1855

Place madeNew York, New York, United States, North America

Silver

Part (spoon): 6 5/8 × 1 1/4 × 3/4 in. (16.8 × 3.2 × 1.9 cm)
Part (fork): 6 1/4 × 3/4 × 5/8 in. (15.9 × 1.9 × 1.6 cm)

Gift of M. F. Savage

1925.96ab

Descriptionsilver child's fork and spoon with pointed handles, cast in vertical halves, with c-scrolls and trefoil decoration and the engraved initals, "V S O" in script; molded handle sockets fitted with chamfered stems; spoon with squared shoulders and a pointed oval bowl; fork with a pierced bowl and four tines; maker's mark stamped on the underside of the bowl.

Markingsengraved: on the handles: "V S O" in script stamped: on the underside of the spoon bowl: "A. C" in a rectangle

ClassificationsSILVER