ELI WHITNEY COMMEMORATIVE LARGE SILVER SPOON
marked: BLACK STARR & FROST with an eagle
custom-made commemorative spoon, the openwork handle with a cotton gin and cotton plants, the bowl engraved, Eli Whitney/born in Westborough Massachusetts/Dec. 8th 1766/died 1824/Inventor of the Cotton Gin/and of the interchangeable parts/of the repeating rifle/Originator of the standardizing of the interchangeable parts of machinery.
From a Newtown, CT woman's collection of silver spanning 35 years.
Estimate: $200 - $300
Realized: $125 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 96 : ELI WHITNEY COMMEMORATIVE LARGE SILVER SPOON
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