A 17th Century provincial silver Trefid Spoon

A 17th Century provincial silver Trefid Spoon,

with an open crown mark struck once in the bowl and four times on the stem, probably West Country, circa 1685,

oval bowl with a crude rat-tail, the front of the terminal with engraved decoration, the reverse prick dot initialled 'ED' over 'E.V' over '1685', length 19.2cm, approx. weight 1.2oz.

Provenance: Sotheby's, London, Fine Silver and Vertu, 29 November 2005, lot 105.

G.D. Patterson Collection, Christie's South Kensington, 10 November 1988, lot 64

for the mark see: Jackson's, Ian Pickford Edition, The Antique Collectors' Club, 1989, page 324.