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Item: Spoon Description: Apostle Hallmark: Salisbury circa 1664 by Thomas Thornburgh Dimensions: 189mm long, 60g weight Comments: A good and inexpensive mid-17th Century apostle spoon with clear marks for the Salisbury spoon maker Thomas Thornburgh (struck three times). The apostle's polyfoil nimbus is dot pricked with betrothal initials and dated 1664. A later inscription is to be found on the reverse of the stem "S Palmer to E.C. Notley" and remains of gilding & planishing marks can be seen on the spoon. See "West Country Spoons and Their Makers" by Tim Kent pages 137-138 and "Salisbury Silver & It's Makers 1550-1700" by Tim Kent page 240-242 for more information about this silversmith and illustrations of the identical mark. Provenance: The How of Edinburgh Sale on October 30th 2007. This spoon is shown in the illustration on page 154 (plate E3) of "West Country Spoons and Their Makers" by Tim Kent 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/8407 Payment options More item information |
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