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Engraved Coin Silver Teaspoon "REVERE"

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Original “REVERE” Hallmarked
Paul Revere Engraved Coin Silver Teaspoon


(PAUL REVERE, Jr.). c. 1809, Hand-Engraved Coin Silver Teaspoon made by the famous Patriot Paul Revere, of Boston, for the Hooper Family, Very Fine.
This Teaspoon was personally handmade by Paul Revere, and is so Hallmarked on the reverse with his large size “REVERE” (Kane mark D). This spoon also has a Period-engraved, decorative script “H” on the upper handle end. This spoon measures 5.75” long, and has light overall use, the tip edge showing some irregularity from wear and is otherwise extremely clean, silvery and highly attractive. The engraved “H” is made for Robert Hooper, who married Polly Williams of Roxbury in November of 1809. He was almost certainly related to Robert “King” Hooper (1709-1790), also of Marblehead (MA), who was one of the wealthiest and most influential merchants in Colonial New England. Paul Revere is also known to have made other silver pieces for King Hooper, including a silver coffee pot in 1769 and a Teapot in 1790. This auction lot is also accompanied by a note from Silversmith and shopkeeper George Gebelein of Boston, which documents his purchase of the spoon from a Hooper family descendent in the year 1950. (See Kane, Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers.) In a recent East Coast auction, a pair of Revere made spoons hammered at $32,000 ($16,000 each) plus the auction house buyer’s fee. A remarkable and highly popular original Silver piece, both engraved and fully Hallmarked. An absolutely authentic, original piece of Paul Revere Silver hosting his best and largest form of his mark, An American Treasure, certainly one of the most historic highlights of this auction.(8,000-16,000)


Paul Revere, Jr. (1734-1818), the son of French Hugenot immigrant Apollos de Revoire (Anglicized to Paul Revere, Sr.). Though a prominent silversmith in his day, Revere is, of course, best remembered for his partriotic endeavors and his famed midnight ride.

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