Made in Edinburgh
This silver spoon was made by the Edinburgh silversmith John Scott around 1642. It is one of two spoons found in a house in the High Street in Irvine in Ayrshire and is known as a disc-end spoon from the pattern at the end of the stem.
The disc at the end of the stem is marked with the initials 'I F'.
Scottish-made spoons of the 16th and 17th century are rare. Designs initially followed English and continental patterns, but the disc-end pattern was a distinctively Scottish type.
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