Details
A late 17th/early 18th Century spoon,
trefid-end pattern and with rat-tail bowl, the reverse of the bowl and the front of the handle die-stamped with rococo foliage, the reverse of the handle pricked with initials, John Peard II, Barnstaple, circa 1695 (c.f. West Country Silver Spoons and their Makers 1550-1750 by Timothy Kent, page 119, illustration M110).
trefid-end pattern and with rat-tail bowl, the reverse of the bowl and the front of the handle die-stamped with rococo foliage, the reverse of the handle pricked with initials, John Peard II, Barnstaple, circa 1695 (c.f. West Country Silver Spoons and their Makers 1550-1750 by Timothy Kent, page 119, illustration M110).