AN AMERICAN SILVER AND SILVER GILT MACARONI SERVING SPOON. Unknown maker, circa 1866. Marks: PATENT 1866, effaced mark. ...

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AN AMERICAN SILVER AND SILVER GILT MACARONI SERVING SPOON
Unknown maker, circa 1866
Marks: PATENT 1866, effaced mark
10-3/8 inches long (26.4 cm)
4.01 troy ounces

The macaroni serving spoon with wrapped beaded columnar stem and Gothic Revival-style tracery covered egg shape terminal with turned finial, the terminal monogrammed MEB, 1868, the fluted shaped gilt bowl with pierced serving tines to the side and engraved foliate decoration.

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