Object Number 1962.0240.454

Object Name

Spoon

Category

Metals

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred E. Bissell

Creator (Role)

Elias Pelletreau (Maker)
May 31, 1726-November 10, 1810
As per Flynt & Fales, Heritage Foundation Collection, pp. 296-297: Elias Pelletreau was the son of a merchant, Francis and Jane (Osborne) Pelletreau. His mother died when he was eight and his father died when he was eleven. His stepmother, Mary Pelletreau, married Hugh Gelston, a business associate of his father. Between 1748-50 Elias married Sarah Gelston, his stepsister, who died in 1784. He remarried two more times. Elias Pelletreau was a Lieutenant in the militia in 1761 and a Captain in 1765. (L. Clouser, cataloguer, 10/22/2010) See Also: Margaret Hofer, Stories in Sterling: Four Centuries of Silver in New York, (New York Historical Society, 2011), pp. 74-75.

Place of Origin

Southampton, New York, Long Island, United States, North America

Origin Notes

As per Belden (see References): Elias Pelletreau also worked in New York, New York, Simsbury, Connecticut, and Saybrook, Connecticut. (L. Clouser, cataloguer, 10/22/2010)

Date

1750-1780

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Mark; Handle, underside; "EP" stamped in a rectangle
2. Inscription; Handle, underside, end; "S+D" engraved

Materials

Silver

Techniques

Engraved

Dimensions (inches)

4.252 (L) , 0.866 (W) , 0.2822 (Weight)

Dimensions (centimeters)

10.8 (L) , 2.2 (W) , 8 (Weight)

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Quimby, Ian M. G. 1995 American Silver at Winterthur.
• Published: p. 276, no. 241 a-g
[Book] Belden, Louise C. 1980 Marks of American Silversmiths in the Ineson-Bissell Collection. 506 p.
• An illustrated glossary of spoon terms, pp. 467-488
[Book] Belden, Louise C. 1980 Marks of American Silversmiths in the Ineson-Bissell Collection. 506 p.
• Information on maker and published mark, pp. 330-331, fig. d
[Book] Flynt, Henry N. & Fales, Martha Gandy. 1968 The Heritage Collection of Silver: With Biographical Sketches of New England Silversmiths, 1625-1825. 391 p.
• Biographical information on maker, pp. 296-297