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Seal-top spoon

Description

A seventeenth-century seal-top spoon; copper-alloy/brass; maker's mark, a fleur-de-lis, inside bowl; considerable wear to bowl; stem bent; attached with cotton to old piece of card with provenance.

  • Measurements

  • Length

    55 mm (bowl)
    145 mm

  • Width

    43 mm (bowl)

  • Marks & inscriptions

    : handwritten : associated note : : Discovered in the garden of the Chantry farm Denston, in the County of Suffolk,

  • Place made

    United Kingdom - England

  • Credit line

    CC-BY-NC-ND Image Courtesy of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust