Half spoon
Half spoon
Hello, Please help me to identify this spoon. Unfortunately it hasn't got any marks. Length: 5.8 cm, weight: 13.0 g. Regards.
Re: Half spoon
Fenix122 wrote:Hello, Please help me to identify this spoon. Unfortunately it hasn't got any marks. Length: 5.8 cm, weight: 13.0 g. Regards.
Re: Half spoon
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Re: Half spoon
I’m not sure it will be easy for anybody to come up with a suggestion. All I can say is that I don’t believe it is English and I don’t know enough about styles across mainland Europe to rule anywhere else in or out.
More or less similar finials are sometimes found on English 16th century spoons but those spoons would have a faceted stem, typically with a hexagonal cross-section. The stem on this fragment appears to be flat with a rectangular cross-section which I wouldn’t expect to see on an English spoon earlier than mid to late 17th century, too late for this style of finial. There seems to be engraved decoration on one side of the stem which would be unusual on English spoons of this general type (though there are occasional examples).
One further problem. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries there was a bit of a fashion for historicist silver which might be reminiscent of that from earlier periods though not necessarily an accurate reproduction. This leaves me saying I guess the fragment is European, but not English, either from a relatively early spoon or from a later historicist one.
Some clues about the history of the fragment, such as where it was found, might help narrow things a bit.
More or less similar finials are sometimes found on English 16th century spoons but those spoons would have a faceted stem, typically with a hexagonal cross-section. The stem on this fragment appears to be flat with a rectangular cross-section which I wouldn’t expect to see on an English spoon earlier than mid to late 17th century, too late for this style of finial. There seems to be engraved decoration on one side of the stem which would be unusual on English spoons of this general type (though there are occasional examples).
One further problem. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries there was a bit of a fashion for historicist silver which might be reminiscent of that from earlier periods though not necessarily an accurate reproduction. This leaves me saying I guess the fragment is European, but not English, either from a relatively early spoon or from a later historicist one.
Some clues about the history of the fragment, such as where it was found, might help narrow things a bit.