- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1937.135
- People
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Rufus Farnam, American
Henry Farnam (1773-c.1833)
- Title
- Tablespoon
- Classification
- Tools and Equipment
- Work Type
- spoon
- Date
- 19th century
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/230504
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
- 24.8 x 4.8 cm (9 3/4 x 1 7/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: Inscribed cursive on handle end: BW; stamped on back of handle: R&H FARNAM
- Provenance
- Mrs. Marjorie Gene Harkness.
Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1937.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Marjory Gane Harkness
- Accession Year
- 1937
- Object Number
- 1937.135
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- One of seven spoons once the property of Benjamin Wadsworth, A.B. 1690, the ninth president of Harvard,1725-1736/37.
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