Maidenhead Type Spoon, probably late 15th century, British, Silver, Overall: 6 1/8 in. ( cm), Metalwork-Silver, Maidenhead

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Maidenhead Type Spoon, probably late 15th century, British, Silver, Overall: 6 1/8 in. ( cm), Metalwork-Silver, Maidenhead spoons seem to have made their appearance in the late fourteenth century. That some were indented to represent the Virgin Mary is revealed in an inventory of Durham Priory, in 1446, in which 'ij coclearia argentea at deaurata unius sectae, cum ymaginibus Beatae Mariae in fine eorundem' ('two partially gilded silver spoons with the image of the Holy Mary at their ends'), and again in a much later of 1525 in which spoons 'knopped with the image of our Lady' are mentioned

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