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kiralaura Posts: 3 Registered: Dec 2004	posted 12-02-2004 12:24 AM Warning! New! I have just inherited a mismatched collection of silver spoons and a knife from my late grandmother and great-great-grandmother. My family is from the Boston area. Please help me with my family history and tell me a little about these two pieces. Both of them are made of a very thin flattened silver. The first is a 6" teaspoon with the initials "E.J.B." engraved in a fancy script on the back. It's a simple rounded fiddle design handle. The mark on the back is [star]-"F.& H."-[star]. The tip of this spoon is pointed. This is a little 5" spoon made for dipping into some mustard or something. It has a little ladle-type bowl (7/8" diam.). It has a plain fiddle handle with the initials "CL" in fancy script engraved on the front. On the back is written "BANKS & HATCH" in a rectangle with a serrated border. Thanks for your help! IP: Logged
doc Posts: 728 Registered: Jul 2003	posted 12-02-2004 09:30 AM Spoon #1 was made by Farrington & Hunnewell, a Boston firm working in the 1840's. Spoon #2 sounds like a mustard spoon and was made by Banks & Hatch, a Portland, Maine maker working from 1837-1857. IP: Logged
kiralaura Posts: 3 Registered: Dec 2004	posted 12-02-2004 10:42 AM Thanks! I know the early settlers in my family lived in and owned property in Maine since the 1600s. So it makes sense that they'd buy silverware from Maine. Now I need to look through my family history and see who "CL" might have been in that time period and why there'd be a mustard spoon with her initials on it! How long was Farrington & Hunnewell making spoons? ------------------ Kira Bricknell San Francisco, CA IP: Logged
Silver Lyon Posts: 363 Registered: Oct 2004	posted 12-02-2004 11:19 AM It could be a him !! IP: Logged
doc Posts: 728 Registered: Jul 2003	posted 12-02-2004 11:50 AM If you use the search function on this site and search the general silver forum, there is a posting about Farrington & Hunnewell that will be helpful. Sorry-I don't know how to link in the thread to this reply. IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 12-02-2004 12:05 PM SSF SEARCH (click here) To search all SSF Forums for Farrington & Hunnewell (click here) IP: Logged
wev Moderator Posts: 4121 Registered: Apr 99	posted 12-02-2004 07:34 PM The priciples in BANKS & HATCH were Edward Prince Banks (1811-1892) and William Henry Harrison Hatch (1812-1896). Both men continued on in Portland and were still working at their trade in the 1880 census. IP: Logged

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