Elizabethan Seal Top Spoon, 1602

This spoon was made in the final year of Elizabeth I's reign and has a typical squat seal finial of a 16th century spoon. The top of the seal finial bears "ER" initials. It is a good spoon that is competitively price because of the slight thinning to the leading edge of the spoon - although in reality this is somewhat minor and difficult to detect. The bowl mark is a little rubbed, but okay, and there is a good set of marks to the reverse of the hexagonal stem, including the "dove with olive branch" mark of Noah Farmer.

The spoon was formerly part of the famous silver spoon collection of Gavin Campbell the 1st Marquess of Breadalbane that was sold at Christies in 1926. He signed all the spoons in his collection with his name - as seen on the reverse of the stem.