🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Sterling ladle

[pepperj]

England/London then I'm lost as what year.

The shape/style is a first for me. Very different handle.

 

[Mackaydon]

First thought: London 1820.
Don in SoCal.

 

[sprailroad]

I have found two similar items (spoons) with the same handle shape. I was given to understand that they were spoons to feed babies with, the handle being shaped for the mother to loop a finger thru for better control? I might be wrong here, but holding the spoon that way, made sense? Now yours looks bigger, I don't know, a much bigger baby?

 

[Red-Coat]

First thought: London 1820.
Don in SoCal.

The serifed upper case 'F' is 1801 for London. For 1820 it would have been a lower case sans serif 'e'

The maker mark seems to be 'HE over WE', which was the mother and son partnership of Henrietta & William Eastwick.

In the 1800s, the London Assay Office changed their date letters on May 29th each year. The Eastwicks didn't register their mark until 1802, so it's after 29th May 1801 and probably into the the following year.

 

[searcher]

ETA- This was being compiled while @Red-Coat was posting...



Sterling, London, F=1801, George III, Maker

Someone bent the handle for whatever reason.
If that was used as a baby spoon....WOOF!

 

[pepperj]

ETA- This was being compiled while @Red-Coat was posting...



Sterling, London, F=1801, George III, Maker

Someone bent the handle for whatever reason.
If that was used as a baby spoon....WOOF!

That's no regular baby, maybe a Hippo.
The for the help.

 

[pepperj]

The serifed upper case 'E' is 1801 for London. For 1820 it would have been a lower case sans serif 'e'

The maker mark seems to be 'HE over WE', which was the mother and son partnership of Henrietta & William Eastwick.

In the 1800s, the London Assay Office changed their date letters on May 29th each year. The Eastwicks didn't register their mark until 1802, so it's after 29th May 1801 and probably into the the following year.

The for the information