FIGURE 15. CUTLERY AND OTHER SMALL FINDS 



1. Table knife, iron, with sway-backed and round- 

 ended blade, thin, winglike shoulders, the tang 

 slightly turned over at the end but originally 1 % 

 in. in length. A late 17th-century to early 18th- 

 century blade form. 73 T.N. 23. 



2. Table knife, iron, smaller but similar form to no. 

 1, but with the blade end less rounded. The tang 

 is bent at right angles at approximately its mid- 

 section, a presumably fortuitous feature that has 

 been omitted from the drawing. T.N. 23. 



3. Table knife, iron, with incomplete blade and 

 broken tang; the blade narrow and somewhat 

 sway-backed, the shoulders extending into a double 

 collar below a somewhat heavy tang. The closest 

 parallel is believed to have been made around 1700. 74 

 T.N. 23. 



4. Table knife, iron, with the blade much worn and 

 the tip missing, long and heavy shoulders, possibly 

 of octagonal form. This knife is of a form typical 

 of the 17th century. 75 T.N. 23. 



5. Table fork, iron, two-tined, with the long octagonal 

 shank common in the 17th century,' 6 terminating 

 in a rectangular-sectioned tang. T.N. 10. 



6. Table knife, iron, with incomplete blade originally 

 with upswept and rounded end, but seemingly 

 used after the end was lost. Back of blade hipped 

 and terminating in octagonal shoulders and rec- 

 tangular-sectioned tang. Early 18th century. T.N. 

 28/ 



7. Terminal of pewter spoon handle, a weak form 

 of the "split end" or "trifid" terminal of the late 

 17th century. 77 Scratches on the upper surface 

 can be read as the initials "I H." Early 18th 

 centurv. T.N. 1. 



73 See J. F. Hay ward, English Cutlery (London: Victoria and 

 Albert Museum handbook, 1956), pp. 15-16, pi. 13b. 

 " Ibid., p. 16, pi. 17c. 



75 For a similar example, see J. Paul Hudson, New Dis- 

 coveries at Jamestown (Washington: National Park Service, 

 1957), p. 34, second knife from bottom. 



76 The 18th-century shanks tend to be bulbous either below 

 the shoulder or at the midsection. 



77 A complete spoon with this type terminal was found in 

 excavations at Green Spring Plantation near Jamestown; 

 see Lours R. Caywood, Excavations at Green Spring Plantation 

 (Yorktown, Virginia: Golonial National Historical Paik. 

 1955), pi. 11, "G.S. 153." For a Scottish silver spoon with 

 this type terminal see The Connoisseur (April 1910), vol. 26, 

 no. 104, and Catalogue of the Guildhall Museum (London, 1908), 

 pi. 81, no. 16. 



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8. Terminal of pewter spoon handle, spatula form, 

 the handle broad and thin. A broad arrow mark 

 (perhaps a rough, merchant's mark) is rouletted 

 onto the upper surface. On the reverse, an Arabic 

 figure 2, marked in a multiplicity of small scratched 

 arcs, is sufficiently large as to make use of the entire 

 area of the terminal. T.N. 18. 



9. Pewter spoon handle, with spatula terminal, in an 

 advanced stage of decay and broken off at the 

 junction with the bowl; probably rat tailed. T.N. 

 3. 



10. Bowl and broken handle of pewter rat-tail spoon, 

 the rat-tail being unusually long and thin after 

 sharplv constricting at the heel of the bowl. The 

 handle is narrow and oval in section and could 

 very well have ended in a terminal section of the 

 same type and length as no. 9. T.N. 23. 



1 1 . Pewter spoon, normal rat-tail bowl, apparently 

 with spatula handle terminal. This spoon was 

 intact when found, but was in so advanced a 

 state of decay that the weaker sections at both 

 ends lay powdered in the ground and could not lie 

 restored. T.N. 23. 



12. Pewter spoon bowl and section of straight handle. 

 Bowl is of oval form with rudimentary rat-tail; 

 the handle is rectangular in section. The handle 

 form is characteristic of the 17th century.' 8 The 

 spoon is in an advanced stage of decay but appears 

 to have been crudely formed, the bowl being very 

 shallow. T.N. 17. 



13. Latten or brass spoon bowl and section of handle, 

 tinned; the bowl oval but worn away by long use. 

 Maker's mark in the bowl: a spoon flanked by the 

 initials U RS" within two rings between which is 

 the legend "dovble whited." 79 The form is 

 typical of the second half of the 17th century. 

 T.N. 23. 



14. Blade sections of iron scissors. T.N. 23. 



15. Blade and incomplete handle from pair of 

 scissors. The blade terminates at an angle of 30° 

 in the manner of modern tailors' scissors, a shape 

 that was common in the 17th century and less s,, 

 in the 18th. The loop of the handle takes the 



?« A spoon handle witli a shaft of similar t\|"' was found at 

 Jamestown. It bears the mark of Joseph Copeland, a pewterer 

 of Chuckatuck, Virginia, in U>~\5. See John I. Cotter, 

 Archeologual Excavations at Jamestown, Virginia (Washington: 

 National Park Service, 1958), pi. 87, fig. at right. 



7 » See Catalogue of the Guildhall Museum, pi. 71, tig. 3 (for bowl 

 shape) and fig. 5 (for mark). 



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