Object Record
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2015.11.25.6 |
Title |
Souvenir Sterling Teaspoon depicting Sturtevant Hall, circa 1900. |
Object Name |
Spoon |
Date |
1900 |
Description |
Souvenir Sterling Teaspoon depicting Sturtevant Hall, circa 1900. |
Notes |
The maker's mark is rather obscured, but it could possibly be a block "G" for Gorham Silver, an appropriate company which created many souvenir pieces. It is equally hard to establish a fixed date, but I would guess that it is from a time prior to the turn of the century, a time when H. L. Melcher operated a general store and hotel, the Bellevue, on the corner of the Paris Road and Station Road. We have several souvenirs of the time - pieces of Dresden china, pins and letter openers. It would also be appropriate for Melcher to have commissioned this item, given that that Sturtevant Hall had been dedicated in 1891 and that the depiction of the building on the spoon does not have the familiar tower clock, a piece added nearly two decades later. |
Dimensions |
W-1 L-5 inches |