A Commonwealth silver Puritan spoon

A Commonwealth silver Puritan spoon,

by Steven Venables, London 1653,

oval bowl, tapering stem, length 17.5cm, approx. weight 1.5oz.

Provenance: The Constable Collection, Nicholas Shaw Antique, Christie's 9 November 1994, lot 226. Thomas Lumley, a well-known silver dealer had this spoon in his stock for £40 in January 1994, The Wills Collection.

This spoon is illustrated and written up in Constable, D., Silver Spoons of Britain, Constables Publishing 2016, Volume II, page 509, spoon no.99. also illustrated in How, Vol.I, pp.9 and 138.