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agphile Posts: 798 |
posted 09-22-2013 08:23 AM
  
 Things seem a bit quiet so I thought I’d share another spoon that I dug out recently and photographed for somebody else's research. The spoon is interesting in a number of respects. It bears the pricked date 1707, probably engraved when it was new. Its shape is almost Dognose, right for that date, but not quite. The stem end is more like a spatula, lacking the “nose” at its tip. There is laceback decoration on the bowl and the stem, common on trefids but extremely unusual on the later Dognose pattern. According to Tim Kent spoons with a spatula end were a specialty of Edward Sweet of Dunster so the ES on this spoon is probably an unrecorded mark of his. In or around 1707 he should have been sending his spoons to Exeter for assay and marking them with his SW Britannia standard mark. I wonder whether the use of an ES mark was to make it appear that the spoon was made before this requirement even though by its shape it is pretty clearly post 1700. I imagine the spoon may well not be Britannia standard but the fact that it may be a bit naughty adds to its interest as far as I am concerned. IP: Logged |
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swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 |
posted 09-22-2013 12:07 PM
Interesting. Thanks for posting it. IP: Logged |
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ahwt Posts: 2377 |
posted 09-22-2013 12:31 PM
Great post. Antiques are always more interesting when they have a story to tell. IP: Logged |
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asheland Posts: 935 |
posted 12-22-2015 10:46 AM
Great thread indeed! IP: Logged |
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