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Tongue scraper
about 1745
Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
11.59 cm (4 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss E. E. P. Holland
Accession Number09.180
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsSilver flatware
Catalogue Raisonné
Buhler, 1972, No. 161
DescriptionSeamed hollow handle, rectangular in section with chamfered edges, tapers from faceted end with slight molding to band of reeding, and has short tapering circular section above cast turned stem to which is attached a flat shaped extension for right-angled scraper with curved shoulders. Upper handle chewed.
ProvenanceWilliam Dawes, Jr., who rode with Paul Revere to Lexington. Given by Mrs. E.E. P. Holland in 1909.