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A Commonwealth silver-gilt ascribed East Anglian seal-top spoon,
the slender seal part-fluted and incised with crude angular floral motifs and later pricked "E.E. I.R. 1673", marked once in the bowl with a pelleted quatrefoil* by an unidentified maker, Waveney Valley circa 1650 - 17.75cm long, 1.25oz.
Literature:
* Jackson's Revised pp.347 for an illustration of this mark as seen on seal-top spoons.
Christie's South Kensington sale of early silver spoons, 10 November 1998, lot 118 for a similar example.
the slender seal part-fluted and incised with crude angular floral motifs and later pricked "E.E. I.R. 1673", marked once in the bowl with a pelleted quatrefoil* by an unidentified maker, Waveney Valley circa 1650 - 17.75cm long, 1.25oz.
Literature:
* Jackson's Revised pp.347 for an illustration of this mark as seen on seal-top spoons.
Christie's South Kensington sale of early silver spoons, 10 November 1998, lot 118 for a similar example.