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Cape Silver Tablespoons (Set of 3) - Colonial Silver
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Reference: S1438
Period: Victorian
Year: Circa 1840
Silversmith: Peter Clarke Daniel
Place: Cape
Price: $ 360.00
Weight: 195 grams
Dimensions: 22.0 cm
Condition: 2 Excellent, 1 good (tiny split in bowl). Light scratches in bowls, tips very good.
Description: A set of 3 Fiddle pattern Cape silver tablespoons, which are notable for their strong colonial feel, being slightly crude in nature, and with hand hammered stems. Each spoon is slightly different, clearly each spoon was made by hand, probably in primitive conditions. The drops are also crude, and have an amateurish feel, perhaps these were made by a novice apprentice?
All 3 spoons have pseudo hallmarks, date letter a, date letter B and duty head, with no makers mark. The shape of the outline of date letter B is notched on both sides, making it very distinctive - hence our attribution to Peter Clarke Daniel (mark 41, Cape Silver by Welz). Mark 41 has the 2 date letters (a and B) together, with the duty mark - given the outline and occurrance we are pretty certain the same punches were used, but perhaps not by Peter Daniel himself. Further research is required, as we know Cape silversmiths occasionally interchanged punches amongst one another.
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Cape Silver tablespoons
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Scale
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Cape silver spoon - hand hammering
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Hallmarks
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