Old London silver, its history, its makers and its marks (1903)
Howard, Montague · New York, Scribner · leaf 86
f spoons in a set may represent the number of sponsors,each one bringing a spoon. It is true that the church in thesecond half of the sixteenth century limited the number ofsponsors to three, but perhaps these later church laws wouldaccount for the small sets of this period. In the sixteenth… … 60 OLD LONDON SILVER bird, shell and ball. Frequently the end of the handle waswithout any of these ornamental devices. In this case thehandle was cut off diagonally at the end (No. iS) and wassometimes spoken of as being slipped in the stalk. Thehandle was generally hexagonal in form, or, as it…
Plate · Silverwork · Hallmarks
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