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Description: | A post-medieval cast copper-alloy (latten) spoon, surviving complete. The bowl is oval generally rounded, but slightly more steeply at the stem end. There is a maker's mark of a 'I R (with spoon)', on the front of the bowl near the stem. There are pellets above and below each letter. The stem is flat and connected straight to the edge of the bowl with no strengthening tail on the back. The stem terminates in an integral fluted baluster seal top, somewhat distorted; the seal top seems plain. There are extensive traces of a white metal coating on the bowl's internal surface. The bowl is 63.0mm long, 52.9mm wide and 13.6mm deep.The bowl shape is, naturally, consistent with seal top spoon in latten dated c. 1640 by Homer (1975, 46; ref. b). Similarly the fluted baluster seal top is a 17th-century feature (ibid., 38; ref. f). The seal top has a long floruit from c. 1550; this piece sits comfortably towards its end, c. 1630-1670 AD. This mid 17th-century date is re-enforced by the maker's mark of 'I R (with spoon)', documented in Butler (2001, 49; ref. 92) with a slightly different rendering on a very similar overall spoon form.
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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