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AN AMERICAN SILVER TABLESPOON AND DESSERT SPOON
Lot 464PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF RALPH E. CARPENTER, JR.

AN AMERICAN SILVER TABLESPOON AND DESSERT SPOON

MARK OF SAMUEL VERNON, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, CIRCA 1720

Fermé24 January 2020

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AN AMERICAN SILVER TABLESPOON AND DESSERT SPOON
MARK OF SAMUEL VERNON, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, CIRCA 1720
Both with rat-tail joins to bowls, tablespoon with trefid terminal engraved on reverse Ann Green, dessert spoon with rounded up-turned terminal, engraved on reverse with block script R + V, both marked to reverse with SV in a heart
8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) long, the tablespoon
3 oz. 6 dwt. (103 gr.)

The Tablespoon:
Ann Green (1720-1748), daughter of John Green (1686-1758) and Mary (Green) Green (1687-1783) of Warwick, Rhode Island, to their grandniece
Mary "Polly" Greene Clapp, to her grandniece in 1861
Eliza Woodward Tiffany, by decent to
Martha E. Allen, East Greenwich, Rhode Island, thence by decent
Aquired Christie's New York, 16-17 January 2003, lot 122 ($5,019)

Note du spécialiste


The spoon engraved for Ann Green is part of a larger extant group of silver known to have belonged to the Green family of Warwick, Rhode Island and sold in these rooms. A silver handled cup by Samuel Vernon belonging to Ann's sister Mary was sold 21 January 2000, lot 327. A pair of porringers by Samuel Casey, engraved with the initials of Ann's parents, were sold along with a second pair of porringers by Casey and caudle cup by Samuel Vernon, 25 June 1991, lots 37, 39, and 40.

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