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M. FORD CREECH ANTIQUES & FINE ARTS
EARLY BRITISH TABLE SILVER
With Specialty in the Hanoverian Pattern
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We specialize in the Hanoverian pattern (above), with its excellent weight, simple sculptural form and perfect balance. Spoons are available with both rattail and drop heels, and also pattern backs. Forks and knives are available as we can find them, which is quite difficult in good condition. Although teaspoons were not part of the meal (early teaspoons being 4.75" long), we also offer various forms, some with patterned backs - excellent not only for collectors, but for condiments, espresso spoons, and feeding spoons. At this time, we also have several selections of mid-18th century Onslow pattern, with cast scrolled terminals.
We also offer late trefid and dognose (wavy-end) spoons, and select serving pieces in the Old English, Fiddle and Kings patterns.
We purchase only those flatware examples with presence suitable for the table or collecting. We offer
selections both in sets, and individually.
EARLY BRITISH TABLE SILVER : A SHORT HISTORY Spoons / Sets of Table Silver / Forks / Knives / Crests & Monograms Later Georgian Pattern Table Silver / Silver Content & Marks
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Elizabeth I Provincial Silver-Gilt Apostle Spoon, St. Paul Probably Norwich or East Anglia, England Unascribed, thrice marked with bird, c1570-80, the bowl verso with a later monogram conjoined ME The nimbus pricked 'SR' over 'CR' 7.25" Long / 2.1 oz SOLD
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Elizabeth I Silver Seal Top Spoon Mullet over Annulet; London, 1586-7 Mark : Jackson's 2009, p.100 (on spoons) The seal pricked with initials E S ; 6.75" Long / 1.6 oz SOLD
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Elizabeth I Silver Seal Top Spoon Thomas Benbowe (Crescent Enclosing a Pierced Mullet) London, 1592 The finial prick-engraved (worn) TL over RH (?) Marks good to excellent; traces of original gilding 6.25” Long / 1.2 oz. SOLD
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Early 17th Century Silver Figural Folding Spoon, Unmarked c1620, probably Low Countries or Germany
The folding shaft ending in a cast figural stem formed as an armless Egyptian figure with stylized headdress, wearing a pleated Shendyt* below a knop finial, the figure emerging from a leafy tree trunk, the bowl engraved with three early initials (I & D over an R - the I almost indiscernible), and two later foliate initials H C; the entire finial retaining traces of gilding 5.75" Long / 1 oz.
Although this is probably Continental, it is a rare traveling spoon, characteristic of those used in 17th century is both England and Europe. There are several good examples in the Victoria & Albert. SOLD
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Charles I Silver Slip Top Spoon Ingram Francis, London, 1638-9 ; Mark Jackson's 2009 Edition, p. 117 (as found on a seal top) (Francis was apprenticed to well known spoon-maker Edward Hole) 6-5/8" Long / 1.6 oz. SOLD
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Pair Charles II Silver Lace Front & Back Trefid Spoons to the front and down the upper part of the shafts; SOLD
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Charles II Silver Child's Trefid Spoon Steven Venables Junior, London, 1684 Of good gauge silver for the period,
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Rare Charles II Silver Child's Lace-Font & Back Trefid Spoon Edward Hulse,London, c1680 The reverse of the bowl with foliate scroll decoration, SOLD
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Charles II / James II Silver Lace Back & Front Trefid Spoon Thomas Allen, London, c1688 The terminal with foilate scrolls to the front, the verso scratch engraved 1688 over *M*S*; The bowl with rattail attachment and foliate scrolling verso 8" Long / 2.75" Long, the Bowl / 2.4 oz. SOLD
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William and Mary Silver Sucket Fork SOLD
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Rare William & Mary Silver Trefid Sweetmeat Fork 'TN Crowned', England, c1690 Engraved to each side with stylized foliage and an oval at the rounded-shoulder trefid terminal; terminal oval with possible remains of very small scratched initials Silver Flatware, English, Irish and Scottish, 1660-1980', (Ian Pickford), p.77 : the fork only just coming into general use in England at the end of the 17th century..." 3-7/8in. Long / 0.25 oz.
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Late 17th Century Trefid Spoon and 2-Tine Fork each verso lightly pricked EB over EY and 1694 Of sweetmeat or "traveling" size and with trefid terminals, the shafts engraved to each side with undulating foliage descending from unengraved oval cartouches to one side, pricked to the other, the rattail bowl with foliate engraving, the two-tine fork with maker's mark 'Gothic' I pellet P, and the spoon unmarked 5" Long / .9 oz
SOLD
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Charles II Silver Lace-Back Trefid Spoon Thomas Issod, London, 1678 (T.Z above a mullet and below a crown) Also with lace top to the terminal 7.5” Long / 1.4 oz. SOLD
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William & Mary Silver Canon-Handled Basting Spoon William & Mary Silver Cannon-Handled Basting Spoon engraved with original arms for the family of Thornbury: SOLD
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Rare Set of 12 Charles II Silver-Handled Puritan Knives TS a bird below, London, c1667-1686 each with the seal of Henry Neale & his wife Anna Maria Hanbury, Freckenham, Suffolk Provenance : Stobhall, Perth, Scotland SOLD (additional incoming set of 6 Charles II Puritan Knives, crested for Abernethy)
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England, c1680-95 Out of a mural crown or a demi-lion rampant azure holding in the dexter paw a fleur-de-lis or
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Rare Set of 8 Silver Cannon-Handled Cheese Knives SOLD
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William & Mary Trefid Sweetmeat Fork England, c1690 The silver-gilt three-tine fork with a very nice French-forked terminal, the front and back with engraved foliate decoration; unmarked as was often the case in early sweetmeat cutlery 4-1/8” Long SOLD
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Matched Set of 3 William & Mary / William III Trefid Spoons Francis Archbold, 1694; 1692, mark rubbed, poss. Archbold (1); 1694, John Cory (1) Each crested en suite with a talbot's head erased (Amory - Somerset or Co Clare, Ireland; South Carolina Interest) 7-5/8" Long (3), 7.75" Long (1) / 5.9 oz.
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Rare Set of 4 Queen Anne Britannia Silver Dognose 3-Tine Forks Benjamin Watts (3), 1703; Thomas Sadler (1), 1703 7" Long / 5.7 oz. / Each scratch engraved en suite L F SOLD
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Rare Set of Three Irish Queen Anne Britannia Silver Dognose Forks Dublin, 1704, makers marks rubbed away 7.5" Long / 7.9 oz. SOLD
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Rare George I Britannia Standard Marrow Spoon, Andrew Archer, London,1718 Of heavy gauge silver, the ovoid bowl with rattail attachment to a long narrow scoop; 9" Long / 2 oz.
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Set of 12 Queen Anne / George I Britannia Silver Dognose Forks John Ladyman, London, 1707 (10), 1721 (1); John Spackman (1) of very heavy gauge, each with three tines, 11 crested en suite for Prideaux of Cornwall and Devon SOLD
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Rare West Country Queen Anne Britannia Standard Canon Handle Hash Spoon John Elston, Exeter, 1709 An exceptionally rare large example, at 17-1/8" long and 7.1 oz., fully marked to the center and engraved verso HS over HD; Longer handled hash or serving spoons with tubular handles were introduced in the late Charles II period. Produced until about 1725, sizes typically ran between 14" and 16". Made in sections, the hollow handle was an invention to prevent burning the hands of the user. Eventually the hollow tube was proven to be impractical because it was easily bent or split. The 17-1/8" length of this spoon is exceptional, as is the early West Country origin. Provincial examples are excessively rare. SOLD
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A Rare George I Britannia Standard Canon-Handled Basting Spoon, Gundry Roode, London, 1715 Gundry Roode, London, 1715 The large oval bowl with a plain rat-tail attachment to a tapering "canon" handle with double ball finial, (Shown together with) A Rare Queen Anne Britannia Standard Dognose (Wavy-End) Teaspoon, London, 1709 London, 1709, Lacking Maker's Mark/ 4.25" Long / .3 oz. SOLD
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Queen Anne Royal Britannia Silver Spoon Thomas Spackman, London, 1713 In the Hanoverian pattern, the terminal with Royal Cipher of Queen Anne within the Order of the Garterbelow a Royal Coronet; 8.25" Long / 2.4 oz.
SOLD
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Rare Set of 6 Royal Queen Anne Britannia Silver Spoons Each Bearing the Royal Cipher of Queen Anne within the Order of the Garter and below the Royal Coronet Lewis Mettayer, London 1713
SOLD
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Straight Set of 12 George III Silver Hanoverian Tablespoons
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Six Georgian Silver & Britannia Marrow Spoons England and Ireland, 1722-1774 (Priced Individually)
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Rare Set of George I Paul de Lamerie Silver Dessert Spoons London, c1720 Of heavy gauge silver, each with rattail attachment and unengraved upturned terminal, Paul de Lamerie was considered the greatest silversmith of the 18th century. Bearing de Lamerie's markers mark of 1716. 7" Long / 7.7oz.
SOLD
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Good Straight Set of 8 George II Hanoverian Silver Spoons Philip Roker II, London, 1753-4 A demi-ostrich argent with wings expanded gules holding in the beak a horseshoe or Sir Trafford Smyth, 4th Baronet of Upton (c1720-65)
SOLD
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HARLEQUIN SETS of GEORGE II / III HANOVERIAN SILVER DESSERT SPOONS & FORKS (12+12) :
Harlequin Set of Twelve George II / III Hanoverian Silver Dessert Spoons : 1749 (1) : maker's mark rubbed. In Stock - Linked (The Spoons Available) and
Harlequin Set of Twelve George II / III Hanoverian Silver 3-Tine Dessert Fork, London : (The Forks Sold) |
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Scarce Straight Set of Six George II Silver Hanoverian Dessert Spoons London, Likely 1753-4, Maker's Mark Cast Over & Rubbed Each bottom struck and with single drop heel, the upturned terminals crested : 'A globe in a frame all or, he crest being ensigned by an earl's coronet' for Carpenter, Earl of Tyrconnel, co. Kilkenny, Ireland 6/75" Long / 7.8 oz. SOLD
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Royal Interest : George III Large Silver-Gilt Onslow Straining or Sifting Ladle, Crested for Son of George III (Prince) Unmarked, c1775 The unusually large ladle of heavy gauge silver, for sifting or straining,
SOLD
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Scarce George II One-Piece Silver Apple Corer SOLD
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George III Silver Shell-Back Mote Spoon James Tookey, London, c1765 The ovoid bowl pierces with saltires and foliate scrolls, SOLD
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George III Silver Toasting Fork SOLD
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Georgian Provincial Silver "Reverse Scoop" Marrow Scoop Marked twice 'A S', possibly Scottish
(Corresponding Mark to Alexander Stewart, Inverness, and Tain, c1800-1025) Of rare elongated tapering form, the squared off bowls facing in opposite directions, 8.5" Long / 1.8 oz.
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Set of Six Early George III Hanoverian 3-Tine Dinner Forks Thomas & William Chawner, London, 1763 Arms of Chamier Impaling Wilson Of heavy gauge silver and full tines 7.75" Long / 15.7 oz
SOLD
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Rare Straight Set of 12 George II Irish Silver Hanoverian 3-Tine Dessert Forks Michael Home, Dublin, c1752 The terminals crested : A wolf's head erased proper collared argent charged thereon with a cross crosslet sable for the family of Tighe, Mitchelstown in the County of Westmeath, Ireland 6.75" (c17 cm) Long / Individual Tines just under 2" (c5 cm) SOLD
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Straight Set of 12 George II Silver-Gilt Dessert Knives London, 1739-57, Maker's Mark Rubbed Each bearing the Royal Cipher GR within the Order of the Garter 7.75" Long / 20.6 Total oz. SOLD
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Harlequin Set of 6 George III Silver Onslow Dessert Spoons London, c1766-7 John Gibbons (4), Ebenezer Coker (1), London (date mark rubbed), Stephen Adams (1) SOLD
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Scarce George III Hanoverian Silver Two-Prong Serving Fork
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George III Irish Silver Rattail Straining Spoon SOLD
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Early George III Irish Silver Hook-End Basting Spoons & Soup Ladle Crested en suite for James Ferguson of Pitfour, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Basting Spoons : Christopher Skinner, Dublin, c1764, 12" Long Ladle : John Laughlin Jr., & Peter David, 16.6 Total oz.
SOLD
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Early George III Irish Silver Hook-End Soup Ladle Jospeh Cullen, Dublin, 1763 With deep scalloped bowl, the upper shaft engraved in the Irish manner with foliage descending from a terminal cartouche crested with "a cherub's head" 13.75" Long / 8.25 oz
SOLD
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Set Of 12 George I Three-Tine Silver Dessert Forks George Lambe, London, 1718-19 (Britannia Standard) (11); George Lambe, 1719-20 (Silver Standard) (1) In the Hanoverian Pattern, Crested 6.5” Long / 19.3 oz. SOLD
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Set of 6 George III Silver Private Dye-Stamped Dessert Spoons John Lampfert, London, 1770 Crested for Elliston
In the Old English pattern with down-turned terminals, the terminals beautifully cast with stylised foliate decoration to each side, the upper surface with a cartouche engraved with a crest : an eagle’s head erased ppr., ducally gorged ar. 7.6 Oz. / 7’ Long
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Fine Set of 18 Early Victorian Silver-Gilt & Bloodstone Dessert (Fruit & Cheese Knives) George Adams of Chawner & Co, 1841 (17 / John & Henry Lias, 1847 (1), London For dessert use, both with cheese and fruit, each silver-gilt pointed blade fully marked and engraved with a crest : 8.5" Long SOLD
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Rare Set of 8 Georgian Agate-Handled Dinner Knives The c1750-60 carved agate handles with flutes and a single fingerhold (in immitation of Chinese plant forms), |
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Set of 8 George II Silver Pistol-Handled Knives Thomas Swift, London, 1751-56 Antique carbon steel blades Each crested with crested with a stag's head cabossed (Beech, Hunter) (Fairbairn's 122/8) 10.75" Long SOLD
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Georgian Silver Meat Skewers (each linked separately) George IV Silver Meat Skewer, William Chawner, London, 1831 (SOLD) George II Silver-Gilt Meat Skewer, Richard Crossley, London, 1802 George III Silver Meat Skewer, Joseph Barnard, London, 1801
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Very Scarcce Pair George III Silver Nutcrackers Phipps & Robinson, London,1803 Of heavy gauge silver, the reversible nutcrackers with a central pivot 5.25" Long / 4.4 oz.
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