Question about this find

[diveplam]

Hello, colleagues! This spoon is our latest find from our last dive. I believe it is a silver-plated English officer's spoon from the 18th or 19th century. Can anyone help identify it?

 

[Red-Coat]

Hi @diveplam.

Can you just clarify something. Below are crops from your pictures and there appear to be two sets of marks, one of which is less clear than the other, but neither are in sharp focus:

As far as I can tell, both sets are the same, but in slightly different styles as 'JR' followed by '&' and then a crown, and then 'BP' sideways. Those would be the marks for silver plate by John Round & Son of Sheffield between 1874 and 1886. The 'BP' is for 'Britannia Plate', a form of silver electroplate that uses a pewter variant called Britannia metal as the base alloy.

There are many variations, but this would be typical:

There's no way of knowing if it was an officer's spoon... stylistically, it's just a generic fiddleback.

 

[diveplam]

There is only one spoon and one stamp. The focus is clearer in one of the photos.

 

[diveplam]

That’s very interesting. I thought the spoon was from the Crimean War, but it turns out to be from a later period.