Provincial silver spoon?

[Granmaa]

Here is a good quality silver teaspoon; it has only one mark: G&L. I'd date it at c.1800.
Does anyone recognize this mark and where it's from? Any help will be appreciated.

Miles




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[Granmaa]

I recently found out that this style of ampersand was used in Scotland, but I've still had no luck with the maker.

Miles
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[Scotprov]

It was made by Gordon & Lovell of Madras between 1803 - 7.
See p76 Wynyard Wilkinson's Indian Colonial Silver.
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[Granmaa]

Thankyou very much Scotprov, I would never have thought of Indian origin. Were large amounts of flatware imported back to Britain?

Miles
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[Scotprov]

A fair quantity. Members of the Raj had their nice canteens of silver out there, then, when they came home, they naturally brought it with them as the Indian stuff cost a fraction of the home produced silverwares. Added satisfaction was that it made them the 'Jones's' with whom everyone else had to keep up, but at an exhorbitant price!

Richard
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