https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/templates/general_wide/img/logo.png https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/spoons.html https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/spoons/spoon-28052.html Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT Spoons  

Description:		A complete pewter spoon, probably dating to the Tudor period. It has a fig-shaped bowl, a square-section handle, orientated lozengewise, and a discoidal knop. The knop is possibly a worn maidenhead* type, which has lost some of the facial detail. The recorder notes a possible maker's mark (not visible on the images) on the back of the bowl. * It is possible that this is a head-and-neck finial representing a child, probably the infant Jesus. These are found on small child-sized silver spoons, an early 17th century example of which is illustrated by G E Paget How, English and Scottish Silver Spoons, Vol.2, pp. 1945-199.
Category:		Post-Medieval to Modern, Spoons
Category:		Spoons

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/spoons/spoon-58947.html Thu, 23 Oct 2025 08:29:42 GMT Spoons  

Description:		An incomplete pewter spoon of probable early post-medieval date. The surviving part of the spoon consists of about one-third of the (probably oval) bowl and a short length of the handle. The bowl has a maker's mark in the form of a quincunx of pellets on the inside surface. The handle is of sub-rectangular cross-section and terminates in a 'rat-tail' heel on the underside of the bowl. See also UKDFD 48517 and UKDFD 34055.
Category:		Post-Medieval to Modern, Spoons
Category:		Spoons

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/spoons/seal-top-spoon-58693.html Fri, 11 Jul 2025 08:58:36 GMT Spoons  

Description:		A section of the stem and knop of a seal-top spoon of the early post-medieval period. The knop has characteristic baluster moulding and a plain terminal disc. The stem is of circular section in the upper region and D-shaped in the lower section towards the break. The bowl is missing. (These were sometimes engraved with the initials of the owner, but many are left plain.)  For a complete example of a spoon of a similar type, see UKDFD 15692. Cf. PAS: DOR-A1CED6
Category:		Post-Medieval to Modern, Spoons
Category:		Spoons

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/spoons/seal-top-spoon-58413.html Mon, 27 Jan 2025 18:47:18 GMT Spoons  

Description:		A section of the circular section handle and knop of a seal-top spoon dating to the early post-medieval period. The knop has characteristic baluster moulding and a plain terminal disc. (These were sometimes engraved with the initials of the owner, but many are left plain.)
Category:		Post-Medieval to Modern, Spoons
Category:		Spoons

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/spoons/trefid-spoon-fragment-57586.html Mon, 11 Sep 2023 15:07:36 GMT Spoons  

Description:		A cast copper-alloy pied-de-biche or trefid spoon handle fragment of the later Stuart period. comprising a short length of the upper handle and the expanded terminal. The central lobe of the trefid is now on the same level as the external lobes, indicating a date of around 1680 to 1700.
Category:		Post-Medieval to Modern, Spoons
Category:		Spoons

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/spoons/trefid-spoon-handle-57483.html Wed, 02 Aug 2023 18:22:37 GMT Spoons  

Description:		A copper-alloy pied-de-biche or trefid spoon handle of the later Stuart period. The oval bowl is missing
Category:		Post-Medieval to Modern, Spoons
Category:		Spoons

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/spoons/caddy-spoon-15904.html Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT Spoons  

Description:		The bowl of a thin, sheet copper-alloy caddy spoon. The inside is decorated with a floral pattern, consisting of incised zigzags and punched dots. A short length of the shouldered stem survives.
Category:		Post-Medieval to Modern, Spoons
Category:		Spoons

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/spoons/apostle-spoon-fragment-56279.html Tue, 31 Aug 2021 11:34:33 GMT Spoons  

Description:		The figural finial from a copper-alloy apostle spoon. The robed figure is depicted standing on a moulded base, the attributes he carries under each arm are undetermined. Apostle spoons were sometimes made in sets of thirteen, one for each of the apostles, and the thirteenth depicting Christ. Individually, they were popular as christening gifts, as one bearing the child's particular patron saint could be given.
Category:		Post-Medieval to Modern, Spoons
Category:		Spoons

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/spoons/spoon-bowl-54878.html Fri, 06 Dec 2019 10:37:54 GMT Spoons  

Description:		A copper-alloy teaspoon bowl. Comprising the oval bowl and a short stump of the stem. The back of the bowl is decorated with tapering ribs that resemble a shell.
Category:		Post-Medieval to Modern, Spoons
Category:		Spoons

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/spoons/spoon-54853.html Sat, 30 Nov 2019 13:34:37 GMT Spoons  

Description:		A William IV silver teaspoon. It has an oval bowl and a slender D-section stem which is heeled at the bowl end, it extends to form a downturned fiddle pattern handle. The back of the handle bears the London Assay Office hallmark used between 1834-35 and the maker's mark MC, Mary Chawner.
Category:		Post-Medieval to Modern, Spoons
Category:		Spoons

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