Fine Silver - 25th October 2017
Lot 890
A Queen Anne Scottish silver Dog-nose spoon
Estimate £800 - £1,200 | Hammer £2600
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Description
A Queen Anne Scottish silver Dog-nose spoon,
by John Luke II, Glasgow circa 1709/10,
the oval bowl with a large plain rat-tail, the reverse of the terminal with initials 'AM' over 'EJC', length 20cm.
Provenance: Constable Collection, Nicholas Shaw Antiques, Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 10 February 2004, lot 259.
This spoon is illustrated and written up in Constable, D., Silver Spoons of Britain, Constables Publishing 2016, Volume II, pages 944-945, spoon no.220.