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Home › Collectables › Silver Items, Toast Racks, Spoons and Cutlery in Sterling Silver or Old Sheffield Plate or EPNS or EPBM, other › Spoons › Sterling Silver

STERLING SILVER SPOONS

I started collecting Sterling Silver spoons, because nearly everything else in Sterling Silver was so expensive.
I had hoped to collect a setting or so of Exeter Silver for our new grand-daughter, Ella Ruby, but soon found that Exeter flatware was quite rare and it would take too long to collect.
So I went for spoons, caddy spoons, tablespoons, teaspoons, dessert spoons etc.

Below are some photos, with short descriptions, of the few items I have purchased in the past months.

Some of these items have links to other parts of my website.

1796 SPOON (Geo. 3rd.)

This is the oldest spoon I own made in the reign of Geo. 3rd.

(I consider the Hanoverians to be imposters, and claim the throne to my forebears, the Stuarts.
My relation, the 4th Earl of Derwentwater, was the last Earl to be beheaded in the Tower of London)

Silver Spoon Geo 3rd

Rather worn hallmarks but still discernable
Makers Mark - SG over EW
Hallmarks Silver Spoon Geo 3rd

Silver Spoon Geo 3rd - Initials H & I

Rather stumpy rat-tail type extension from handle along the base of the bowl. Such designs are excellent for giving added strength.

Silver Spoon Geo 3rd - Rat-tail extension

Pr of SERVING SPOONS - EXETER 1852

These are a pair of beautiful spoons, well hallmarked and with brilliantly engraved monograms, as shown in Photo 2.

Pr Silver Serving Spoons Exeter 1852

I like collecting monogramed items - I think it adds to the beauty and history of the piece.
Some monograms are more artistic than the article itself.

Silver Spoon Exeter 1852 Monogram

Silver Spoon Exeter 1852 Hallmark The hallmarks for Exeter 1852.
Makers Mark - ES
Queen Victoria head
Lion passant
Exeter 3 Towered castle mark
Old English Q for 1852

Pr SPOONS - EXETER 1864

These are the first Exeter Spoons I bought. They are very robust, well hallmarked and nicely monogramed.

Pr Sterling Silver Spoons Exeter 1864
A pair of dessert sized spoons

Pr Sterling Silver Spoons Exeter 1864

Queen Victoria head
lion passant
3 Towered castle for Exeter
Upper case 'H' for 1864

Pr Sterling Silver Spoons Exeter 1864 Monogram

I cannot decipher the monogram
Looks like it could be a
fancy B if viewed the other way up

CASED SET OF APOSTLE SPOONS

This is a strange lot. Marketed by W. Gibson & Co of Belfast & London, yet the items are not English Sterling Silver.

Has anyone any ideas ?

Cased Set Apostle Spoons. W. Gibson, Belfast. Cased Set Apostle Spoons - Printed in Box

Apostle Spoon

6 Silver APOSTLE SPOONS and a pair of TONGS

A lovely set of 6 Apostle Spoons and 1 pair of Sugar Tongs

Silver Apostle Spoons and Tongs Hallmark Apostle Spoon

Apostle Figure 6 Silver Apostle Spoons and Tongs

1906 - 5 TEASPOONS and PAIR TONGS

5 Teaspoons, circa 1906, with a pair of Sugar Tongs.

5 Silver Teaspoons and Pair Tongs

These are 100 years old now. They were made in the middle of King Edward V11's reign.
Edwards's mistress, Lillie Langtry came from Jersey, Channel Islands, where I had an hotel in the 60's, curiously named The Prince of Wales Hotel in Greve de lecq.
Later I had a restaurant in Portelet Bay. During this time I gleaned much information about the royal romance and the Le Breton family.

1906 Silver Teaspoon Hallmark 1906 Silver Teaspoon

1927 CADDY SPOON

1927 Silver Caddy Spooon

I bought this spoon because it was dated 1927, the same year that I was born.