A Charles I unascribed West Country lion sejant spoon

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A Charles I unascribed West Country lion sejant spoon
with a gilt terminal, pricked on the back of the bowl "I.P 1660 I.A" and later initialled, stamped in the bowl with a polyfoil mark within a pelleted circle and on the back of the stem with a makers mark, S.B, mullet below, (apparently overstriking another)* Devon/Cornwall area circa 1640 - 17cm long, 1oz.
Literature:
Jackson's Revised pp.325 for an illustration of this mark.
Provenance:
Sotheby's Ellis catalogue, 1935, lot 231.
See Illustration

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