Chats on Old Silver

by Arthur Hayden

SEVENTEENTH AND EARLY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SPOONS.

APOSTLE SPOON.

St. Simon Zelotes. Exeter hall-mark. Date pricked on back, 1674.

FLAT-STEM SPOON.

Trefoil top. Rat’s-tail back. Maker, probably Thomas Simpson. Exeter hall-mark 1712.

(In possession of Messrs. J. Ellett Lake & Son, Exeter.)

LOBED-END SPOON.

Showing both sides. 1679.

(At Victoria and Albert Museum.)