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FWG Posts: 845 |
posted 03-02-2007 01:42 PM
  
Laid up with the flu, I took advantage of the time to check some unidentified spoons against wev's website, and identified several. I thought it only fair in exchange to offer a few marks needed there. Three posts total now, with two examples in each. These, shouldered fiddles: Elisha Hempsted (1793-1855) worked 1823 to his death in Litchfield, CT. This mark on a 5.9" teaspoon. The Safford is trickier, as there are a couple of candidate, but I believe this mark can safely be attributed to William Hill Safford (1850-1909), who worked in Newburyport, MA. wev attests his partnership as Safford & Lunt, c.1875, and on two of these three 5.75" teaspoons you can see the ampersand remaining. They also have the manufacturer's mark of Wood & Hughes. IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 03-03-2007 02:35 AM
This may be a little more information on the subject: The Newburyport Directory, 1879 The Safford name is also found in association with Towle. IP: Logged |
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middletom Posts: 467 |
posted 03-14-2007 05:28 PM
FWG, I find your Safford spoon of particular interest, partly because Safford worked in Newburyport but also because the little tip design on the front of the handle looks as though it could have been made with the tip die that we at ONC have for some of our colonial style teaspoons. I wonder, as Mr Safford passed away in 1909 and Elmer Senior moved to Newburyport and started ONC in 1914, might Elmer have purchased some or all of the tools from the Safford estate? He had recently come from his apprenticeship under George Blanchard and surely needed additional tools. I know that the tip design displayed on the Safford spoon was common, but each was different to a certain extent, and that one looks so much like one of ours that I wouldn't be surprised if the die did come from Safford's collection. If it did, I wonder how many of our other dies came from there. When I was apprenticing, Cap Dow, who was my teacher, said that over the years from the thirties when he started at ONC until the fifties, he had, at various times,had offered to him chests of entire collections of silversmithing tools. He could have had them for $5.00 a set. He turned them down figuring that he had all the tools he would need. He told me that much later, when such tools became scarce and much more valuable, he could have kicked himself for not picking them up when the picking was easy. IP: Logged |
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