Laceback Trefid Spoon, 1688

This is a fine example of a London made laceback silver trefid spoon. This spoon has a nice feel to it with crisp lace-back decoration to the front terminal and corresponding decoration to the reverse of the bowl (some wear). The reverse terminal has a set of dot-pricked betrothal initials, where "B" is the surname of the newly weds. The hallmarks are a major bonus for this spoon - they were deeply struck and so remain crisp and easily legible, with a particularly clear maker's mark for a specialist spoon maker. The spoon is in excellent overall condition with a full sized bowl.

The spoon dates from an interesting year in English history with the Catholic King James II being deposed as part of the Glorious Revolution and the interregnum period where the legitimacy of his successor was in dispute - eventually resolved with the call to James's Protestant daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange to take the English crown.