A Provincial Antique English Silver Maiden Head Spoon, 1520
Length: 6 1/4"
Weight: 1 oz. 1 dwt.
Weight: 1 oz. 1 dwt.
H0405
$ 18,500.00
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Maker’s Mark: S in reverse With a fig shaped bowl, a facetted tapering stem, the gilt finial formed as a woman’s head amidst lobes, scratch engraved IWT to the back...
Maker’s Mark: S in reverse
With a fig shaped bowl, a facetted tapering stem, the gilt finial formed as a woman’s head amidst lobes, scratch engraved IWT to the back of the bowl.
The two marks on this piece are illustrated in G. E. P. How, Silver Spoons and Pre-Elizabethan Hall-Marks on English Plate, 1953, vol. 3, Chapter VI, plate 2 of Section IX. He suggests a date of 1510-30.
With a fig shaped bowl, a facetted tapering stem, the gilt finial formed as a woman’s head amidst lobes, scratch engraved IWT to the back of the bowl.
The two marks on this piece are illustrated in G. E. P. How, Silver Spoons and Pre-Elizabethan Hall-Marks on English Plate, 1953, vol. 3, Chapter VI, plate 2 of Section IX. He suggests a date of 1510-30.