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Description: | 2008 T662 Modern silver spoon terminal.British Museum ReportSilver spoon terminal, comprising a twisted stem broken off, terminating at the other end with a figure standing on a capital. The male figure is crudely cast. He wears long flowing robes, and carries an object which may be a book, but is not nimbed so cannot be intended for a saint.The crude casting and twisted stem suggest a 19th or even 20th C dating for this object. It is however based on the 16th C apostle spoon, and is likely to have been made in the historicist style perhaps in Germany. Compare the figure of a landsknecht of 16th C type on a 19th Century German spoon with twisted stem and elaborate bowl in a private collection in Klaus Marquardt, Eight Centuries of European Knives, forks and spoons, Stuttgart 1997, no. 553. Therefore, in all probability, this item is not Treasure, as defined by the Treasure Act 1996.Dr Dora Thornton, Curator of Renaissance Collections
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