Caddy Spoon, No maker’s mark, 1797
Image from: Birmingham Assay Office.
This leaf-shaped caddy spoon bears the ‘double duty mark’. By a statute of 1797, the duty on silver, which involved the necessity of an additional mark of the sovereign’s head, was doubled to 1/ – per oz. In that year pieces marked by Birmingham and Sheffield Assay Offices had the sovereign’s head marked twice.
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