Fine Silver - 25th October 2017
Lot 900
A Charles II silver child's Puritan spoon
Estimate £700 - £900 | Hammer £1300
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Description
A Charles II silver child's Puritan spoon,
by Jeremy Johnson, London 1662,
the oval bowl with a rudimentary rat-tail, tapering stem, the terminal prick-dot initialled 'EPM', length 14cm, approx. weight 0.7oz.
Provenance: Constable Collection, J.H. Bourdon-Smith Ltd.
This spoon is illustrated and written up in Constable, D., Silver Spoons of Britain, Constables Publishing 2016, Volume II, pages 766-767, spoon no.163.