A late 17th Century trefid-end spoon with rat-tail bowl, pricked with initials and a date 1691, the handle and the reverse of the bowl die-stamped with "lacework", bearing maker's initials only I.H. struck three times, possibly John Honeychurch, Penzance; and a further 17th Century trefid-end spoon crudely-pricked with initials, the bowl struck with an unidentified mark, probably also West Country. (2)

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A late 17th Century trefid-end spoon with rat-tail bowl, pricked with initials and a date 1691, the handle and the reverse of the bowl die-stamped with "lacework", bearing maker's initials only I.H. struck three times, possibly John Honeychurch, Penzance; and a further 17th Century trefid-end spoon crudely-pricked with initials, the bowl struck with an unidentified mark, probably also West Country. (2)

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