Description
An Elizabeth I West Country silver Maiden Head spoon,
marked twice R.O, for Richard Osbourne, Exeter late quarter of the sixteenth century,
the finial with traces of gilding, length 16.8cm, approx. weight 1oz.
Provenance:
purchased from Woolley and Wallis, Early Spoons, 30th October 2002, lot 104.
for maker's mark see Tim Kent, West Country Silver Spoons and Their Makers, 1550-1750, J.H Bourdon-Smith Limited, 1992, page 116.
