Details
A Charles II ascribed West Country decorated Puritan spoon,
pricked at the top of the stem with a stylised flower and on the back of the bowl "D.P I.B 1664", stamped in the bowl with an eight spoked and pelleted mark and on the back of the stem with hounds, (incuse) by Thomas Wood, Exeter circa 1664 - 18.5cm long, 1.25oz.
Literature:
Sotheby's Ellis catalogue, 1935, lot 171.
Kent, West Country Spoons and their Makers pp.145 for very similar marks.
See Illustration
pricked at the top of the stem with a stylised flower and on the back of the bowl "D.P I.B 1664", stamped in the bowl with an eight spoked and pelleted mark and on the back of the stem with hounds, (incuse) by Thomas Wood, Exeter circa 1664 - 18.5cm long, 1.25oz.
Literature:
Sotheby's Ellis catalogue, 1935, lot 171.
Kent, West Country Spoons and their Makers pp.145 for very similar marks.
See Illustration