Details
An Elizabeth I ascribed East Anglian maiden-head spoon,
with a small v-shaped rat-tail on the back of the bowl and traces of gilding on the terminal, makers mark only struck once in the bowl, an incuse quatrefoil* Waveney Valley, circa 1570, slight split in bowl - 15.75cm long, 1oz.
Literature
* Jacksons Revised pp.347, first item for drawing of this mark as seen on Communion plate 1560-1580.
How, English and Scottish Silver Spoons and Pre-Elizabeth Hallmarks on English Plate, Vol.I pp234 (plate 11) for details of an East Anglian seal-top spoon with the same mark circa 1580 and where it states "The maker (with this mark) was almost certainly a local silversmith, quite possibily Harmon Chosted of Beccles, who was fined by the Goldsmiths Company in 1593.
with a small v-shaped rat-tail on the back of the bowl and traces of gilding on the terminal, makers mark only struck once in the bowl, an incuse quatrefoil* Waveney Valley, circa 1570, slight split in bowl - 15.75cm long, 1oz.
Literature
* Jacksons Revised pp.347, first item for drawing of this mark as seen on Communion plate 1560-1580.
How, English and Scottish Silver Spoons and Pre-Elizabeth Hallmarks on English Plate, Vol.I pp234 (plate 11) for details of an East Anglian seal-top spoon with the same mark circa 1580 and where it states "The maker (with this mark) was almost certainly a local silversmith, quite possibily Harmon Chosted of Beccles, who was fined by the Goldsmiths Company in 1593.