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argentum1

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iconnumber posted 09-17-2006 10:19 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for argentum1     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This is a new design for me. I have seen the birds and floral and urn backs but not a combination. This one has an openwork urn/pot with flowers and shell mounting the top. These are the 'gotta have em' spoons which our dog really hates to see. He knows I will be bunking with him.


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Silver Lyon

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iconnumber posted 09-17-2006 02:45 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Silver Lyon     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
If your taste in dogs reflects your taste in spoons, he probably sleeps on the bed anyway! (This is intended as a compliment to dog, spoons and owner!) smile

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ahwt

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iconnumber posted 09-17-2006 03:42 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ahwt     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Great picture back and combined with the bright cut spoon even better. Congratulations. I wonder how long it took the silversmith to make such a lovely spoon.

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Brent

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iconnumber posted 09-20-2006 11:04 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Brent     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

Here is another unusual back, a reticulated basket with leaves on either side and one 6-petal flower up the middle. It is marked by Nathaniel Coleman of Burlington, NJ.

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tmockait

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iconnumber posted 09-20-2006 03:45 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for tmockait     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Argentum, very nice spoon. Silver Lyon: according to "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell me!" on NPR, "dogs" is perjorative. They are "canine Americans!"

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ahwt

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iconnumber posted 09-20-2006 04:50 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ahwt     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
One of our flea markets of note is called “Dogs’ Day”. It is a great place to trade, sell or tell stories about dogs as they have a special section set off from the remainder of the flea market just for dogs. One can hear the howling from all over the market and it is fun.

Actually, isn’t it pejorative only if one is using the word dog to refer to something other than a dog?

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bascall

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iconnumber posted 11-13-2008 04:04 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for bascall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
If anyone has the where-with-all and inclination to follow up on this, here is the index for the 1842 will and codicil and the 1842 inventory for Nathaniel Coleman, Burlington, New Jersey from the New Jersey Index of Wills, Inventories, Etc., Vol I, page 109: 14899C.

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Polly

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iconnumber posted 04-22-2013 04:39 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Polly     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The picture of the N. Coleman spoon is not showing up for me above, but I found a set of 6 spoons with what must be the same back:





1790s? Later?

I also found a photo of Coleman's desk, which was once owned by William Penn:
And a drawing of Mr. & Mrs. Coleman in their parlor:

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Polly

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iconnumber posted 04-22-2013 05:26 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Polly     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Just to clarify, I own the spoons but not the desk and drawing. (Perhaps that's obvious.)

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asheland

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iconnumber posted 04-12-2018 11:13 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for asheland     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Bumping another picture back spoon thread. smile

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