Souvenir spoon: Midnight Ride
Boston, Massachusetts
c. 1891
Maker
Daniel Low & Co. (est. 1867)
Freeman & Taylor, retailer (late 1880s to c. 1910)
Measurements
4-1/8 in x 7/8 in x 1/2 in
Materials
Silver with gold wash
Credit Line
Historic Odessa Foundation, The David Wilson Mansion, Inc.
Accession Number
1971.1055
Inscription
“The Midnight Ride / 1775” is in relief along the top of the handle. “PA’T APL’D FOR” and “FREEMAN & TAYLOR” are stamped into the underside of the handle.
Provenance
Ex coll. Mrs. E. Tatnall (Mary Corbit) Warner
Comments
The spoon with a wavy, rococo-styled handle has a wide cartouche handle tip with a raised image of Paul revere on horseback. In the background, a church is to his left and a house to the right. The handle records the title “The Midnight Ride / 1775” in relief.
The spoon is discussed in Souvenir Spoons of America (1891). The text names Freeman & Taylor on page 23. It is pictured in a Daniel Low and Co. catalogue of November 1, 1893. See Dorothy T. Rainwater and Donna H. Felger, American Spoons: Souvenir and Historical, revised and enlarged (1990), p. 276.
