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Item: Spoon Description: Trefid with decorated rattail Hallmark: Exeter circa 1700 by Thomas Salter Dimensions: 214 mm long, 54g weight Comments: An excellent quality West Country spoon in very good condition (minor ding to bowl) with a fine crisp example of a rarely found decorated rattail. The bowl has a thick tip, the stem a bulbous terminal and there are three excellent examples of Salter's pre-1701 maker's mark. Dot pricked initials "T.B" over "T.C" over "1720" to reverse terminal. See "West Country Spoons & Their Maker's 1550-1750" by Tim Kent page 43 figure 69 for a near identical example to this spoon, and page 130 for more information on the maker and an illustration of the mark. 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/8378 BUY THIS ITEM MORE INFORMATION |
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