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Item: Spoon Description: Seal-top Hallmark: London
1573 by " Campanula" mark Dimensions: 165mm; 45grams Comments: A superb Elizabethan seal top spoon with large fig-shaped bowl and clear hallmarks. The condition is excellent with a full unworn bowl (some minor bruises from table contact). There is a good round baluster seal to the terminal with original "V" notch solder join (blow hole visible). The hallmarks are first class with a very clear bowl mark and three excellent stamps to the reverse stem. The maker's mark is described by Kent in "London Silver Spoonmakers 1500-1697" as being a campanula and is illustrated on page 8. Finding Elizabethan period spoons of such quality and condition and at sensible prices is becoming increasingly difficult - this spoon is recommended as a top example of its' type.
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