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Description: | A Post Medieval cast copper alloy spoon. The spoon bowl is fig-shaped, and crescentic in profile. The lower edge of the bowl has an asymmetrical wear pattern suggesting the person using it was right-handed rather than left-handed. There is a maker's mark on the bowl, just below the stem - details are not clear, but may consist of two initials, possibly 'FT'. The stem is sub-oval in section, getting slightly more angular towards the bowl, but it becomes more smooth and tapers slightly, before again expanding towards the terminal. The terminal of the stem is plain, and in profile is obliquely angled on the outer face. The surface of the spoon has an incomplete well developed mid-dark green patina. However, there is a patch of red copper corrosion on the reverse of the bowl. The bowl and stem together measure 164mm long and 47.96mm wide across the bowl. It weighs 42.6g.Geake (Geake, H. 2001 Finds Recording Guide Version 1.1 p. 76) comments that spoons with maker's marks date to the second half of the 16th and 17th century. Egan (Egan, G. 2005 Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition MoLAS Monograph 19) illustrates similar shaped spoons made from pewter and copper alloy (Nos. 527-585), commenting that the Pewterers' Guild since the 1560s had tried to prevent copper alloy spoons being made, which worked quite well until the late 17th century (p. 117).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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