Spoon, silver, made in Boston, 1760 to 1770

What BBN said about it

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorPer the Met, this is a silver spoon, made in Boston between seventeen sixty and seventeen seventy by the silversmith Paul Revere Junior.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorLovely. Let me get the loupe in. Yes, there is a bowl, and it's the shape of a bowl, which worries me.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe record puts it at about twenty centimetres long. You can see the handle narrows toward the end.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTwenty centimetres. That's a spoon with ambitions, Gloria. That's a spoon that wants to stir something big.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIt's a spoon.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe man is famous for riding through the night. This spoon, as far as the record shows, rode nowhere. Not a mile.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorI have appraised meteorites and medieval manuscripts, Dale. I have never once held a loupe over cutlery.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThat's your loss. It's the last honest thing in the building.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorEverything else is a countdown, and this has been sitting still since the seventeen sixties.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe appraisal, please.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFour tins of soup, one good torch, a cardigan with a hole in the elbow, and a letter from a cousin nobody likes.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThat's your pantry.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAnd it will outlast all of us. Spoons always do.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe Met owns it, and it is not for sale. It will outlast you, Dale. Take comfort in that.