Any help with dating or IDing this Peruvian tupu spoon?
Any help with dating or IDing this Peruvian tupu spoon?
Bought this and so far all can really figure is that it is from Peru probably 1800s and that it is possibly a tupu? Can anyone help me out with it? I'd love to know a possible time period and maybe a maker? The maker is most likely impossible but worth a shot! Also, I believe that the spoon should be straight but someone curled the silver handle? Thanks for any help!
Re: Any help with dating or IDing this Peruvian tupu spoon?
::::: The "Craquelure" or the pattern of breakage on the spoon is indicative of Ingot Silver (sometimes called "Ingot Stamped Silver") and there is a lecture by a Navajo (Diné) Silver Expert that describes the process of melting down coins, or silver slugs (ingots) to make a piece of silver jewelry, and it is indicative of silver that was produced before 1930. ::::::
:::::: The spoon-form Tupu, as this example seems to be, were primarily made at the end of the 18th C. until the end of the 19th C. ::::::
:::::: I'm not sure how to tell if this is an early or a later Tupu. ::::::: Interesting to know if anybody is a Tupu expert and would be able to know if this is circa 1800 or circa 1880, I'm not quite sure how to tell the difference. :::::::::
:::::: The spoon-form Tupu, as this example seems to be, were primarily made at the end of the 18th C. until the end of the 19th C. ::::::
:::::: I'm not sure how to tell if this is an early or a later Tupu. ::::::: Interesting to know if anybody is a Tupu expert and would be able to know if this is circa 1800 or circa 1880, I'm not quite sure how to tell the difference. :::::::::