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A COMMONWEALTH PARCEL-GILT SILVER SEAL-TOP SPOON
Lot 727THE JARVIS COLLECTION
(LOTS 714-757)

A COMMONWEALTH PARCEL-GILT SILVER SEAL-TOP SPOON

PROBABLY NORWICH, DATED 1649, MAKER'S MARK LACKING

Fermé28 November 2012

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A COMMONWEALTH PARCEL-GILT SILVER SEAL-TOP SPOON
PROBABLY NORWICH, DATED 1649, MAKER'S MARK LACKING
The fig-shaped bowl with hexagonal tapering stem, with double baluster finial, the seal prick-engraved with initials 'H.G' over 'I.G', and dated '1649', marked twice on stem and once inside bowl with crowned rose town mark only
7 in. (19.1 cm.) long
2 oz. 2 dwt. (65 gr.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 19 June, 1963, lot 92 (£65 to Siebert).
The Siebert Collection, no. 386.

Note du spécialiste

The town mark struck on this spoon would seem to be identical to that used in Norwich through much of the 16th and 17th centuries, though typically it is used in conjunction with other marks. Colin Ticktum was confident enough to ascribe to Norwich a stump end spoon on the basis of marks similar to the present example (C. Ticktum, The Ticktum Collection, Norwich, 2001, p. 26), though he does mention Southampton and Newcastle as other possibilities which have been suggested, by, in the first instance, Timothy Kent.