A 'Darby Patent' bright-cut teaspoon by William Darby Sheffield 1785 .
Price: £345.00
                                                                                                                  In 1785 Sheffield silversmith William Darby patented 'a new method of mufacturing spoons and other articles'. This was, in essence, an early example of mass production. However only around 40 pieces bearing his mark have been recorded, all of which are hallmarked for 1785.

An oar-pattern teaspoon, by R.L. - perhaps attributable to Richard Lamb of Sydney, circa 1850, initialled {LJ}.
Price: £245.00
                                                             The mark on this spoon shows similarities to a mark recently attributed to Richard Lamb by John Houstone and the shape of the fiddle pattern and style of the initials do have precedents in known Australian flatware — see Early Australian silver by J.M. Houstone, pages 77-8

A ''galleon back'' teaspoon, by WT (attributed to William Tant) London circa 1760.
Price: £140.00

A fiddle, thread and shell teaspoon, by George Smith and William Fearn London 1795, crested for the Ducie family beneath an Earl's coronet (for the Earldom of Ducie) .
Price: £85.00
                                                                                                          The Ducie family were created Barons Ducie in 1720 and again in 1763, in order to allow for the continued succession. The 4th Baron was further ennobled in 1837 when he was created Earl of Ducie. Their main seat was Tortworth Court in Gloucestershire. (This has been a hotel since 2001).

A pair of Old English teaspoons with bright-cut cartouches and initials - one York 1798 by Hampston and Prince; the other London 1797 by Eley and Fearn.
Price: £80.00
                                                           The bright-cutting on both these spoons is similar to that on a pair of sugar tongs assayed in York between 1801-1804 (see Michael Baggott's 'Illustrated Guide to York Hallmarks 1776-1858' [2010], figure 294) and could thus indicate a link between the silversmiths of London and York
                                                                                                                      2 pairs of spoons available

A Scottish fiddle pattern teaspoon by David Downie of Edinburgh circa 1780

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                                                                                                       David Downie (c.1736-1826) is unusual among eighteenth century goldsmiths for a number of reasons. He was a Roman Catholic with Jacobite associations, in Edinburgh in the 1760s which is in itself unusual. In addition, in 1794 he was tried for High Treason for his associations with the proscribed revolutionary group 'The Friends of the People'. Found guilty, he was due to be executed but that was commuted to exile. He went to America and died in Augusta, Georgia. An ancestor of Ronald Reagan, Downie's portrait appears here.                 

A Louis XV pattern teaspoon made in London in 1860 by John Samuel Hunt crested with a bull's head out of a coronet.
Price: £75.00

A "pattern of unknown name ( Lias Brothers)" teaspoon, by William Theobalds London 1841, initialled {LMS} .
Price: £65.00
                                                                                                          This pattern is recorded (and so-named) on page 152 (figure 241) of Ian Pickford's Silver Flatware 1660-1980 (1983) and many other pieces by the Lias Brothers have been noted. Interestingly this spoon is both earlier than those illustrated and by a different maker.

A Hanoverian teaspoon with fancy back, by Henry Daniel London circa 1780, initialled {L} [over] {MD}.
Price: £65.00

A fiddle thread and drop teaspoon, by George Smith and William Fearn London 1795, engraved with the coronet and initial for Francis Godolphin Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds (1751-1799) .
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                                                                                                                  Francis Godolphin Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds (1751-1799) held many court and government offices, including Lord Chamberlain to Queen Charlotte (1777-1780), Ambassador to Paris (1783) and Foreign Secretary (1783-1791). In 1773 he married Amelia Conyers, Baroness D'Arcy, who eloped with Captain John Byron, the father of the poet, Lord Byron, in 1778.