A Queen Anne ascribed West Country trefid spoon

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A Queen Anne ascribed West Country trefid spoon
with a bead and reeded rat-tail pricked "T.B. R.D. 1710" on the back of the terminal, possibly by Thomas Salter* Exeter, 1709 - 20.25cm long, 1oz.
Literature
* See Kent, West Country Spoons and Their Makers, p.130 for Salter's Britannia mark (M134). The mark on this spoon is similar but it is crowned.

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