Collect: Americana

comprising a set of three bird-back teaspoons by David Hall (1767-1814), Lancaster, Pennsylvania, circa 1795, with drops at bowl backs, pointed ends, engraved with with monogram, "AB," marked to undersides; a bird-back teaspoon by William Haverstick (1756-1823), Philadelphia and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, circa 1795, with drop at bowl back, pointed end, engraved with monogram, "EB," marked to underside; a fiddle-back teaspoon by Joseph Shoemaker (1765-1829), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa 1810, engraved with monogram, "A," the underside of handle engraved, "C. Hackett," marked; a teaspoon by Jacob Perkins (1766-1849), Newburyport, Massachusetts, circa 1780, with drop at bowl back, engraved with monogram, "SS," marked to underside; a bird-back teaspoon by William Bradford Whiting (1731-1796), Norwich, Connecticut, circa 1780, with drop at bowl back, engraved with monogram, "HB," marked to underside; a coffin-end teaspoon by Nicholas Geffroy (c. 1761-1839), Newport, Rhode Island, circa 1800, with bright-cut decoration and engraved with monogram, "SB," marked to underside of handle; a teaspoon by Samuel Casey (1724-after 1770), Exeter, Rhode Island, circa 1770, with drop at bowl back, engraved with monogram, "W/ IM," marked to underside of handle; a teaspoon by Joseph Clark (1764-1821), Danbury, Connecticut, circa 1785, with shell and drop at bowl back, engraved with monogram, "C," marked to underside; a teaspoon by Brazillai Davison (1739-1828), Norwich, Connecticut, circa 1765, with drop at bowl back, engraved with monogram, "MH," marked to underside; and a teaspoon probably by Benjamin Hurd (1739-1781), Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1770, with drop at bowl back, engraved with monogram, "HI," marked to underside; together with a silver tablespoon by Nathaniel Coleman (1765-1842), Burlington, New Jersey, circa 1790, with drop at bowl back, engraved with monogram, "JPC," marked to underside of handle.

Length 9 1/2 inches (tablespoon), Total weight: 6.065 oz. t.