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Item: Sweetmeat Fork Description: Trefid Hallmark: London 1697 by Richard Syng Dimensions: 112 mm length Comments: An extremely rare fully hallmarked William & Mary period sweetmeat fork with the added bonus of an unusual form of terminal and a very scarce combination of marks. The date letter for 1697 is generally to be found with Old Standard (Sterling) hallmarks, however the New Standard (Britannia) was introduced and made compulsory from March 1698. Therefore the combination of this date letter and Britannia Standard marks was used for only two months (March-May) in 1698. Provenance: The How of Edinburgh Sale on October 30th 2007. How of Edinburgh were the leading experts in early spoons. They were retailing from the early 1930's onwards and produced the groundbreaking work "English & Scottish Silver Spoons and Pre-Elizabethan Hallmarks" in the 1950's. Price: SOLD Ref. No.: HOW/8392 BUY THIS ITEM MORE INFORMATION |
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