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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.