A HENRY VII SILVER HEXAGONAL-KNOP SPOON

The hexagonal form of the finial on this massive and heavy spoon has been thought to relate to type of finial found in wills and inventories including gold spoons recorded in the inventory of plate of King Henry VIII published by Sir Charles Jackson, An Illustrated History of English Plate: Ecclesiastical and Secular, London, 1967, vol. 2, p. 496. 'a Spone of gold with a knopp six squared therein the kinges armes graven gyven by the lorde Dawbeney.... However Constable, op. cit., suggests the term 'knopp six square is more likely to have been used to describe what we now call seal-top spoons.