1560-1620 An Elizabethan Antique English Silver Seal-Top Spoon
$8,000.00
A scarce 1560-1620 English provincial seal top sterling silver spoon. This spoon has all the classic characteristics. Hand hammered fig form bowl and a double struck maker mark in the bowl. Octagonal handle and a sand cast urn form seal top terminal. There are traces of gilt still remaining on the urn. Spoon is stamped with the owner's initials: GH AD and may have been given at the occasion of a marriage between these individuals. Some wear to this engraving. The same maker mark with complex conjoined letters as the bowl is deeply struck twice on the obverse of the shaft and appears to read: TSYER or S TYLER or something similar. The marks are very crisp. Some patina across the spoon including some dark areas on the bowl that I have not polished, surface scratching, pits, and other very small battle scars. Overall, condition is impeccable and remarkable. The gauge of the spoon is very heavy construction and the condition is probably owed to this. (Reference: History of English Plate, C.J. Jackson Figs. 637/8, 1911)
Weight: 53.6 grams
Length: 6.75" (172mm)
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A scarce 1560-1620 English provincial seal top sterling silver spoon. This spoon has all the classic characteristics. Hand hammered fig form bowl and a double struck maker mark in the bowl. Octagonal handle and a sand cast urn form seal top terminal. There are traces of gilt still remaining on the urn. Spoon is stamped with the owner's initials: GH AD and may have been given at the occasion of a marriage between these individuals. Some wear to this engraving. The same maker mark with complex conjoined letters as the bowl is deeply struck twice on the obverse of the shaft and appears to read: TSYER or S TYLER or something similar. The marks are very crisp. Some patina across the spoon including some dark areas on the bowl that I have not polished, surface scratching, pits, and other very small battle scars. Overall, condition is impeccable and remarkable. The gauge of the spoon is very heavy construction and the condition is probably owed to this. (Reference: History of English Plate, C.J. Jackson Figs. 637/8, 1911)
Weight: 53.6 grams
Length: 6.75" (172mm)
Check out some of my other sterling silver here:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/neurorocker?section_id=6783258
Or just browse around the shop!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/neurorocker
A scarce 1560-1620 English provincial seal top sterling silver spoon. This spoon has all the classic characteristics. Hand hammered fig form bowl and a double struck maker mark in the bowl. Octagonal handle and a sand cast urn form seal top terminal. There are traces of gilt still remaining on the urn. Spoon is stamped with the owner's initials: GH AD and may have been given at the occasion of a marriage between these individuals. Some wear to this engraving. The same maker mark with complex conjoined letters as the bowl is deeply struck twice on the obverse of the shaft and appears to read: TSYER or S TYLER or something similar. The marks are very crisp. Some patina across the spoon including some dark areas on the bowl that I have not polished, surface scratching, pits, and other very small battle scars. Overall, condition is impeccable and remarkable. The gauge of the spoon is very heavy construction and the condition is probably owed to this. (Reference: History of English Plate, C.J. Jackson Figs. 637/8, 1911)
Weight: 53.6 grams
Length: 6.75" (172mm)
Check out some of my other sterling silver here:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/neurorocker?section_id=6783258
Or just browse around the shop!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/neurorocker