Silver & Objects of Vertu - 14th July 2026
Lot 118
An Elizabethan silver-gilt provincial Apostle spoon, The Master,
Estimate £1,000 - £1,500 | Hammer £1270
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Description
An Elizabethan silver-gilt provincial Apostle spoon, The Master,
marked once in bowl, HP conjoined in a circle, circa 1690,
fig-shaped bowl, later pricked to the underside 'NV' over 'MB' over '1652', tapering faceted stem, the finial lacking a nimbus, length 18.9cm, approx. weight 1.8oz.
Provenance:
Sold in these rooms, How of Edinburgh, 30th October 2007, Lot 283.
See Jackson's Revised p.516 for this mark seen on a maidenhead spoon, circa 1590.