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LOT 1911

Sold for (Inc. bp): £364

TUDOR 'THAMES' PEWTER ACORN-TOPPED SPOON WITH MAKER'S MARK
CIRCA 16TH CENTURY A.D.
6 3/8 in. (34.8 grams, 16.3 cm).

Featuring a shallow ovoid bowl, round-section stem and acorn finial; bowl stamped with rosette makers mark. [No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
Found Billingsgate spoil from the Thames foreshore, London, UK, circa 1984.
Property of an Essex collector.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Homer, R.F., Five Centuries of Base Metal Spoons, UK, 1975, p.38.

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