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'Puritan' spoon
Silver
Origin: London
Date: 1669-1670
19.1 cm length; 42 g weight
Marks/Maker: London, sterling standard, 1669-70, maker's mark LC, pellet between, crown above, crescent below, probably for Lawrence Coles
Bequeathed by A.T. Carter, 1947; WA1947.157
T. Schroder (2009), no. 373
Spoons of this form seem to have appeared in England around 1650, with most surviving examples dating to the 1660s. Contrary to the name's socio-religious connotations, this type seems to have originated in Paris at the end of the sixteenth century.
Information derived from T. Schroder, British and Continental Gold and Silver in the Ashmolean (2009)
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