Now THIS is cool! One of the earliest English spoons recorded... London 1462!

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  • BillDugan1959
    BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Neat website.

  • ShadyDave
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    @asheland said:
    I can imagine that this sold very quickly!

    http://www.antiquesilverspoons.co.uk/important-edward-iv-spoon-1462.html

    what was the ask for it?

  • asheland
    asheland Posts: 24,545 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @ShadyDave said:

    @asheland said:
    I can imagine that this sold very quickly!

    http://www.antiquesilverspoons.co.uk/important-edward-iv-spoon-1462.html

    what was the ask for it?

    I will post if I find out. I did ask.

    My YouTube Channel

  • CIVITAS
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    Neat. I'm sure a very expensive way to eat your Wheaties.

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    https://www.civitasgalleries.com

    New coins listed monthly!

    Josh Moran

    CIVITAS Galleries, Ltd.
  • Weiss
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    edited July 26, 2017 4:03PM
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    Very cool. Very, very cool.

    I believe the seller indicates this mark is the "African leopard's head":

    Maybe. But to me it sure looks like

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • BillDugan1959
    BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    That's a big stretch, methinks.

    The English always had some Ancient Greek philosophy and political history (the sources often secondhand from Rome and Italy, and in Latin, not Greek) at their fingertips, but the artifacts themselves were slower in reaching old Angleterre. The first big dump of Greek artifacts same from Englishmen who were rooting around in Southern Italy (Greater Greece) after 1750, and then just after the end of the Napoleonic era, truly Greek stuff started flowing towards England in torrents. I am just a sad, badly educated American amateur, but that Leopard's head mark and that Greek coin are unlikely to go together.

  • asheland
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    Cool none the less... :)
    He wrote back and said the asking price is £19,995!
    I am not surprised by the price given the early date... Apparently it's in the process of being sold.
    Wish it was mine.

    My YouTube Channel

  • yosclimber
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    edited July 28, 2017 1:34AM
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    I take it you collect these - cool.

    Wish it was mine.

    Wish you could buy it for £20k?
    Or wish you could have it, generally?

    It sounds like this was dug; maybe there are more to be sold?

  • asheland
    asheland Posts: 24,545 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @yosclimber said:
    I take it you collect these - cool.

    Wish it was mine.

    Wish you could buy it for £20k?
    Or wish you could have it, generally?

    It sounds like this was dug; maybe there are more to be sold?

    I wouldn't be thrilled at 20K, but would generally love to own that example. :)

    My YouTube Channel

  • lordmarcovan
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    @BillDugan1959 said:
    That's a big stretch, methinks.

    The English always had some Ancient Greek philosophy and political history (the sources often secondhand from Rome and Italy, and in Latin, not Greek) at their fingertips, but the artifacts themselves were slower in reaching old Angleterre. The first big dump of Greek artifacts same from Englishmen who were rooting around in Southern Italy (Greater Greece) after 1750, and then just after the end of the Napoleonic era, truly Greek stuff started flowing towards England in torrents. I am just a sad, badly educated American amateur, but that Leopard's head mark and that Greek coin are unlikely to go together.

    It still does look compellingly similar, even if that's coincidence. Cool comparison.

    Cool coi- uhm - er - spoon.

    Antique silver is fun, even if it doesn't come in round disc form. :)

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

  • BillDugan1959
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    The lions on the Royal Coat of Arms have typically been shown open-mouthed for a very long time (something like seven centuries). See Wikipedia for examples.

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