An American Silver Sauce Boat and Two Teaspoons, possibly John Bayly, Philadelphia, unrecorded mark, circa 1770

the sauce boat with undulating gadrooned rim and leaf-capped scroll handle, raised on three shell and scroll supports headed by shells, marked on base three times J:B in rectangle, the teaspoons with pointed terminals, each engraved with script initials CW in a twisted oval, one spoon marked J:B in rectangle, the other unmarked

small rectangular inset panel near upper handle terminal probably original, one foot very slightly pushed up into base, fractures to both back feet, otherwise good condition
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