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Child's Spoon

1890-1900
Made by Reed & Barton, Taunton, Massachusetts (1840–present)
The decoration on this spoon, known as niello work, is rarely found on American silver, and was created by filling incised lines in the silver with a black alloy and then burnishing it.

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