As early as 1642 Kiliaen van Rensselaer presented a pair of gold- and silver-plated spurs to William Kieft, who represented his American interests.  Spurs must be counted among the more unusual commissions that the American silversmith received. Paul Revere, Jr., never mentions the form in his silversmithing accounts, whereas Joseph Richardson’s papers indicate that he produced and imported both silver- and close-plated examples, the latter referring to steel dipped in tin with a silver foil burnished on.

Technical notes: The wheels, or rowels, are iron and secured by pins. 

Book excerpt: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff.  American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.