Lot Essay
See 'West Country Silver Spoons and Their Makers 1550-1750' by Timothy Kent, appendix A, page 169, illustration A18 for a similar mark on an apostle spoon with no maker's mark also dated to circa 1675.
Details
A Provincial late 17th Century trefid-end spoon
with short rat-tail, the reverse of the bowl pricked with initials and a date 1675?, Exeter, struck four times with town mark only.
See Plate 1
with short rat-tail, the reverse of the bowl pricked with initials and a date 1675?, Exeter, struck four times with town mark only.
See Plate 1