Context (Field collection)
The catalogue card for 1947.304, which applies to the Colchester Museum accession as a whole, notes that: 'The collection said, on the Colchester label, to come from Chimbote and Trujillo'.
Event Date
Author: Zahni Blumenthal

Context (Related Documents)
Original card has drawing.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Other owners)
Collected by Arthur Edwin Macandrew during the 30 years he lived in Peru, where he was the manager of a sugar plantation. He donated his collection to the Colchester Museum in July 1931; the collection was subsequently transferred to MAA in 1947.
Event Date 1931
Author: Zahni Blumenthal

Context (References)
(1932). The Colchester & Essex Museum Annual Report, 1931-1932. Colchester: Cullingford & Co., Ltd. pp. 4 & 53.
Event Date 1932
Author: Zahni Blumenthal

Context (Analysis)
Catalogue card in G.H.S. Bushnell’s hand notes: ‘Chimbote.'
Event Date 1947
Author: Zahni Blumenthal

Description (Physical description)
1947.386 C-D: 'Spoons with flat handles, of thin sheet metal. Very coppery'.
Event Date 1947
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Small spoon formed from a single sheet of metal, possibly silvered copper alloy, with a deformed hemispherical bowl and a broad, slightly rippled handle with sides flaring towards a straight butt end.
Event Date 10/12/2024
Author: Zahni Blumenthal