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Hi Miles,
Thanks very much for doing that! Saved me organising an inter-library loan, etc... I can see that I may not find out much more about my spoon, but I have learnt a lot about it already. Before I posted on here I wasn't even sure it was what I'd been told it was.
Cheers!
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Hi Nigel, Thanks for your comments: no, there isn't a fruitlet mark, that was me just confusing the issue by mentioning another, earlier spoon with an RM mark. Mine is a quite simple spoon with no decoration except the initials. It's also got a rather flat handle, from what I can see by looking at o...

Hi - that's all fascinating, and I'm intrigued by these stories of slightly dodgy metal-workers! If the spoon was made well over 300 years ago, I wonder what on earth it has been doing in the interim? I imagine that most of the artefacts discussed on here have an interesting story - if only they cou...

Hi Dognose/Trev, You're right of course, the Robert Mathew spoon is probably a red herring... I was getting a bit carried away! Hi Granmaa/Miles, The fruitlet mark was on a spoon I erroneously thought might be made by the same maker as my spoon, see above. Hi Admin/Tom, Here is a pic of the front of...

Hi, and thanks for the info! I'm reassured. I've been doing a bit of googling and found this spoon listed in Woolley and Wallis Early Spoons & Silver Sale of 29th April 2003: "362. A Charles I silver-gilt ascribed South West provincial seal top spoon, with a large, chased terminal pricked '...

I thought this spoon was pewter till I took it to the V&A and they said it was silver. However, it only has what seems to be three identical maker's marks: RM with three little dots below (see photo). Having looked through this website I'm a bit mystified, as it seems that even a spoon as appare...