• Title
  Selection of flatware and cutlery owned by Captain James Cook and Mrs Elizabeth Cook
• Call number
  SAFE/R 201
  SAFE/R 202
  SAFE/R 203
  SAFE/R 208
  SAFE/R 209
  SAFE/R 210
  SAFE/R 211
  SAFE/R 223
  Status: On display. Objects Gallery. Case 3, Shelf 55. Applies to all parts.
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  approximately 1730-1785
• Type of material
  Objects
• Reference code
  421845
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised : These items have been preserved and digitised as part of the Nelson Meers Foundation Benefaction, 2002.
  
• Physical Description
  12 teaspoons - silver - 13 cm long
  1 gravy spoon - silver - 29 cm long
  4 tablespoons - silver - 23 cm long
  12 knives - steel, wood, and silver - 29 cm and 21 cm long
  12 forks - steel, wood, and silver - 23 cm and 19 cm. long
  2 dessert spoons - silver - 21 cm long
  
• Collection history
  SAFE/R 223 - Bequeathed by Elizabeth Cook to Sarah Doswell and purchased by Sir Saul Samuel, NSW Agent-General, from J. Hatfield, an aunt of Mrs Boswell.
• Scope and Content
  SAFE/R 201
  12 silver teaspoons, 13 cm. long.
  
  SAFE/R 202
  1 silver gravy spoon, 29 cm. long.
  
  SAFE/R 203
  4 silver tablespoons, 23 cm. long.
  
  SAFE/R 208
  6 large knives, steel blades with wooden handles and silver bands at each end of the handles, 29 cm. long.
  
  SAFE/R 209
  6 small knives, steel blades with wooden handles and silver bands at each end of the handles, 21 cm. long.
  
  SAFE/R 210
  6 large forks, steel blades with wooden handles and silver bands at each end of the handles, 23 cm. long.
  
  SAFE/R 211
  6 small forks, steel blades with wooden handles and silver bands at each end of the handles, 19 cm. long.
  
  SAFE/R 223
  2 silver dessert spoons, 21 cm. long.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  See Colonial Secretary correspondence for history and provenance of the relics - Mitchell Library call no. A 3935, p.18, 24-28 (SAFE/R 201-SAFE/R 202).
  See Colonial Secretary correspondence for history and provenance of the relics - Mitchell Library call no. A 3935, p.16, 24-28 (SAFE/R 203).
  See Colonial Secretary correspondence for history and provenance of the relics - Mitchell Library call no. A 3936, p.28 (SAFE/R 208-SAFE/R 211).
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823961
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Circa orbem [around the world] engraved on handle above the Captain Cook crest (SAFE/R 201-SAFE/R 203).
• Subject
  Cook, Elizabeth, 1742-1835.
  Cook, James, 1728-1779.
  Cutlery.
  Silverware.
  Spoons.
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Captain Cook, R. N., the resolute mariner: an international record of oceanic discovery - Oregon Historical Society (7 January, 1974 - 1 January, 1975). Applies to: SAFE/R 201-SAFE/R 203, SAFE/R 208-SAFE/R 210
  Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection - State Library of New South Wales (Jan-Jun 2003)
  Learning Services Program display 2013-2014 - State Library of New South Wales (September, 2013 - December, 2014)

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