Code: 13162
This is an historic silver dessert spoon made in London in 1713, during the reign of Queen Anne. It is made from Britannia silver and is fully hallmarked, although the maker's mark is rubbed. The spoon is engraved on the tip of the handle with a crest of a gauntlet gripping a sword impaled with a boar's head beneath a ducal coronet. From Fairbairn's Crests: Plate 71-9 would indicate Chapman. The Chapman Baronetcy, of London, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 27 June 1720 for Sir William Chapman, a Director of the South Sea Company.
OBJECT: Rat-tail dessert spoon
CULTURE: Stuart/Queen Anne
DATE: London 1713
MATERIAL: Silver
SIZE: 167mm, bowl 65mm x 35mm
WEIGHT: 38 grams
