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Old base metal spoons (1908)

Price, F. G. Hilton (Frederick George Hilton), 1842-1909 · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 61

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55 As silver spoons made by pewterers are very rare, we give herewith an iUustration (Fig. 39) of two specimens, one, a Slipped in the Stalk " spoon, the property of Mr. H. D. Ellis, bearing the touch, possibly of Daniel Barton in the bowl, thus ; and the other a Pied de Biche " or " Split End "… … 1 2 Fig. 39. Silver Spoons bearing Pewterers' marks in the bowls : 1. — Slipped in the Stalk, in collection of Mr. H. D. Ellis ; 2.— Split End, in collection of the Author, with initials ^ ^ on the back of the stem. It bears a " three-spoon " mark with the initial H. The other is obliterated.

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