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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 605923, member: 111&quot;]It was unavailable for a year or so, good to see it back up...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That comes from a 1941 article, and the key phrase there is &quot;thought to&quot;, coffin-end spoons were also thought to be designed in honor of George Washington&#039;s death in late 1799, since the general dating of this shape is the early 19th century - but American examples from earlier in the 1790s exist, and the same form exists in English and other European examples dating to the early 19th century (it was really only in fashion for a couple of decades).&nbsp; While there are funeral spoons, originally given to the pall-bearers, from the same era as this piece, as well as much, much earlier (a tradition particularly among the New York Dutch families), they would be engraved with the deceased&#039;s name and date of death rather than birth.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some examples from around the same time, only one a coffin-end...</p><p><br /></p><p>1796:&nbsp; <a href="https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/36658" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/36658" rel="nofollow">https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/36658</a></p><p><br /></p><p>1789:&nbsp; <a href="https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/44762" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/44762" rel="nofollow">https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/44762</a></p><p><br /></p><p>1808:&nbsp; <a href="https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/5544" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/5544" rel="nofollow">https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/5544</a></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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