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A mid seventeenth century provincial silver Puritan spoon,
stamped thrice to reverse of stem and once in bowl with an anchor mark, probably Wessex / Salisbury area, circa 1650,
oval bowl with a short stem, length 14.8c, approx. weight 1.3oz.
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A photograph of this mark appears in the catalogue of 16th and 17th century provincial silver spoons, of H.D.Ellis, Sotheby's 1935, page 95, lot 126, where it has been wrongly attributed along with the shaded roundel group as possibly Scottish Group.