National Museum of American History
Porringer
1810 - ca 1840
Bellied-bowl porringer with angled rim and bossed bottom; cast crown handle with triangular bracket is pierced with 11 voids and struck once on top with "TD&SB" touchmark for Thomas Danforth Boardman and Sherman Boardman across a keyhole-shape shield below a five-pearl (ducal) coronet with matte ground. Diamond or lozenge linen mark with sink hole from tinker's dam used to burn handle on to bowl. Fine turning marks around upper half of bowl exterior; wide turning marks on underside of boss.
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