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I bought this spoon, and have tried in vain to identify the maker or place of manufacture. I have looked in jackson's revised (Ian Pickford) and the new but rubbish "A Directory of Scottish Provincial Silversmiths and Their Marks" (Did anyone else pay 18 quid for this only to find there were no facs...

Hello there. Almost certainly Higgins. The pattern is called Ornamental Elizabethan and was made by Frances Higgins for Hunt and Roskell. The design was registered 21st december 1852. It is pictured on P147 of Silver Flatware by Ian Pickford (pub antique collector's club, 1995). Incidentally, the vi...