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Description: | Cast tinned copper alloy (latten) Commonwealth Puritan spoon with a heavy elliptical bowl and simple flat stem with a squared-off terminal. The stem tapers slightly towards the bowl and is trapezoidal in section, with the wider face being the upper one. On the back of the stem, at its terminal, running vertically down the stem, are the engraved initial 'T' above the initial 'W', with an incomplete 'V' below, which may have been an attempt at the 'W'. These are the initials of the spoon maker who may have been an immigrant Dutch or French silversmith working in London during the Civil War, who contributed to the design of the spoon (Moore, 2005, 11). There is also a scratched 'W' on the upper face of the stem, at the terminal, but this is perpendicular to the initials on the back, alligned with the length of the stem. On the interior of the spoon bowl, towards the stem end, there is also a stamp, which appears to be two miniature spoons in an incomplete circular recess, which is a typical touchmark from the time (Moore, 2005,11). The back of the bowl has a thin short 'rat's tail' which extends from the stem to the bowl and is 2 mm wide and 13 mm long. The surface of the spoon is pitted and a dark grey colour which suggests that it was once tinned and has now corroded to a darker colour in its sandy water-logged context.Moore (2005) illustrates a similar tinned latten Commonwealth Puritan spoon, which dates from c.1649-1660, and a similar touchmark, which dates from c.1670, on page 11.Egan (2005) illustrates a similar pewter spoon with an oval bowl and flat stem and the owner's incuse initials of T / WA within the bowl, on page 116, fig.107, no.571, which is dated to c.1675, and latten 'puritan' spoons with similar stamps within the bowl of two miniature spoons with initials either side, on pages 119 & 121, fig.113, nos.582 & 586, which are dated from c.1675-1700.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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