Spoon dated 1762 with crest and monogram

[silverfan]

The spoon is 20,7 cm long and weighs 67 grams. The stem bears the maker's mark which I read WJ, then lion and leopard's head and on the right what must be the date letter which i cannot identify. Does anybody know the maker?
Regards silverfan

[silvermakersmarks]

Date letter is "m" - 1767. Maker's mark is WT, but the name is unknown due to the very annoyingly lost registers from that period, the 1739-1758 Smallworkers' Register and the 1758-1773 Largeworkers' Register.

Phil

[silverfan]

Thanks silvermakersmarks, but 1767 does not match the engraved 1762. What could be the reason?
Regards silverfan

[silvermakersmarks]

Impossible to say what was the reason for the engraved 1762. But 1767 is most definitely the assay date (or 1767/68 to be completely accurate as the assay year started at the end of May).

[dognose]

Agree with Phil. Perhaps the the engraving on the spoon was to commemorate an event, (marriage, birth, etc.) that happened five years earlier.

Trev.