An Edward VI silver seal top spoon. Maker's mark: A device (unascribed)...

An Edward VI silver seal top spoon.

Maker's mark: A device (unascribed).

London, 1548.

The fig-shaped bowl to a tapering, hexagonal stem and a fluted seal with traces of gilding, 16.4cm long, approx. weight 1.1ozt (34.2g)

Provenance: An Important Private Collection of Early Spoons.
- Purchased by the vendor from Mrs How in 1994.
- ex Benson collection.
- Described and illustrated in Silver Spoons of Britain 1200-1710 by David J. E. Constable (Vol. 1), pp. 453-454.

Footnote: The reverse of the stem of this spoon is struck with a crowned lion passant. David Constable suggests that it was probably one of the last spoons to be struck with this mark (see pg. 453, Silver Spoons of Britain 1200-1710). Constable describes the 'device' maker's mark as that of a crab (unascribed).