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Spoon

Date1820-1840

MediumPewter

DimensionsObject/Work: 185 x 185 mm

ClassificationsScience/Medicine

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Object numberC02858

DescriptionPewter medicine spoon. It has an elongated bowl with hinged cover, a hole at the tip, and tubular handle and flange. The medicine would be poured through the tube into the bowl. It has been impressed with the word 'Warranted'. Known as a Gibson spoon after its inventor Charles Gibson in 1827.

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