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Description: | A post-medieval copper-alloy (latten) spoon, incomplete having lost its knop to old damage. The bowl is oval, generally rounded, but slightly more steeply at the stem end. There is a maker's mark of a fleur-de-lis stamped on the front of the bowl near the stem. The stem is flat and connected straight to the edge of the bowl with no strengthening tail on the back. It is rectangular with rounded corners in cross-section. The bowl is 64.5mm long, 46.3mm wide and 13.4mm max. deep.The bowl shape is consistent with seal top spoons which have a long floruit from c. 1550 onwards. Furthermore, fleur-de-lis makers' marks have been noted on latten seal top and slip top spoons (Homer 1975, 54). As such a wide 16th to 17th-century date can only be offered for this spoon. The metal has corroded to a red-brown colour with an internal white metal coating and patches of green corrosion product on the lower surface.
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