Flatware

Name/Title

Flatware

Entry/Object ID

2021.19.478R

Scope and Content

Sterling flatware, dresser set. Including a cake server in a leather case, monogram "EJL", Ellen Jane Leach; an old set of child's knife, fork and spoon in a leather case, dated originally 1865, then made over to Catherine C. Moss on her birthday, 1893, and later to her eldest daughter Mary, 1921; An ivory comb and brush set, monogramed with a "B" in a cloth and satin lined case from the ? Jewelry Co., St. Jospeh, Mo., Eleven large coin silver spoons, monogramed "EJL" Ellen Jane Leach; other coin silver and serving spoons and ice tea spoons; A set of 12 buttter knives? monogrammed "M"; Four coin silver teaspoons, monogramed "JMcD" ? MacDonald? (john Doyle barrow;s mother ws Jesse MacDonald); Other serving utensils, one monogramed "CMB" Catherine Moss Barrow; 2 sets of coin silver teaspoons, twelve in one set, eleven in the other, all monogramed "EJL", Ellen Jane Leach; (Ellen Jane Leach was the mother of Mary Leach Moss, wife of J. B. Moss.) A set of twelve ivory handled knives from Jaccards, Kansas City, Mo.; Various other small impliments and more coin silver; Salt cellars with tiny spoons; ivory handlled fruit knives; other small serving implements, and baby spoons, a pusher, and more coin silver teaspons, much of this with monograms, mostly unknown except for the patronime of Moss or Leach. ("M" or "L").

Context

Digital copy