"Just IMPORTED and to be SOLD": Methods of Acquisition and Use of Knives, Forks, and Silver Spoons in Eighteenth-Century Virginia

Blackmore, Lydia Barrett

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"Just IMPORTED and to be SOLD": Methods of Acquisition and Use of Knives, Forks, and Silver Spoons in Eighteenth-Century Virginia

Blackmore, Lydia Barrett

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This study of the material culture and economic influences of dining knives, forks, and silver spoons analyzes the tobacco economy and gentry dining ritual and compares importation versus local production of fine utensils.

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Thesis is part of Honors ETD pilot project, 2008-2013. Migrated from Dspace in 2016.

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2010-05-05

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Virginia, Gentry, Eighteenth Century, Silver, Knives, Forks, Spoons, History, Consumer Revolution, Tobacco

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Richter, Julie
Kern, Susan
Gallivan, Martin D.

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History

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https://scholarworks.wm.edu/handle/internal/12397

"Just IMPORTED and to be SOLD": Methods of Acquisition and Use of Knives, Forks, and Silver Spoons in Eighteenth-Century Virginia

Blackmore, Lydia Barrett

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