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English Sterling Silver Tablespoons, 17th-18th Century

Three English sterling silver tablespoons, 1698 and later, comprising an English Sterling silver tablespoon by John Wirgman, London 1746, an English sterling silver Hanover pattern tablespoon by Thomas Shermer, London 1717, and an English Britannia standard silver trefid spoon by J. Madden, London 1698, 176gms total weight of silver

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  • Marrow Spoon - A spoon with a long handle and a narrow scoop shaped bowl, used to scoop and eat marrow from the hollow centre of roasted bones. Some marrow scoops are double ended with a different shaped bowl at each end.
  • Sterling Silver - Sterling silver is a mixture of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% of another metal, usually copper. Fine silver is 99.9% pure silver, and is relatively soft and the addition of the very small amount of copper gives the metal enough strength and hardness to be worked into jewellery, decorative and household objects.
  • Britannia Standard - A higher grade of silver than sterling silver. Britannia standard silver contains at least 958 parts per thousand of pure silver, while sterling silver contains at least 925 parts per thousand of pure silver.

    The Britannia standard was obligatory in Britain between 1697 and 1720 and after that was optional, so there are very few silver items that come onto the market that are Britannia standard.

    Not to be confused with silver plated Britannia metal items, often marked as "EPBM", a pewter type alloy, that when unplated can be temporarily polished to a silver-like lustre.

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Three English sterling silver tablespoons, 1698 and later,…