Alison lives in a small village in Cambridgeshire and has been involved in the antiques trade for thirty years. A qualified auctioneer, she has a BA Hons in Valuation of Fine Art and Chattels and has worked in a London auction house and for The Potteries Museum as well as exhibiting at fairs in London and East Anglia. She is a keen collector of 18th and 19th century Staffordshire ceramics, turn of the century art pottery and English silver novelty items.
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Description
Unusual and rather rare item of Victorian flatware. This fine piece is a sugar shovel, assayed at the collectable Exeter Office. The spoon has an elongated and shaped 'scoop' bowl, which would also serve as a stilton scoop and is in fiddle pattern. The original script initials are engraved to the top front. A desirable example, with a practical use.
Maker:- James & Josiah Williams
measurements
Height:
15.2 cm
Width:
3 cm
measurements
declaration
Booth Antiques has clarified that the Rare Victorian Exeter Silver Sugar Shovel (LA479950) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being 1869
declaration
condition
condition
Excellent, with no dents or splits. Hallmarks are clear and readable.