Stock No. 5501	Victorian silver Beaded Knurled sugar spoon
	Rare Victorian sterling silver sugar spoon in the very hard-to-find Beaded Knurled pattern. The bowl of the spoon has a curved-edged rectangular shape. The stem ends in a point and is decorated on both sides with delicate gadrooning around the edge, next to which there is a line of beading. Contemporary initials "DM" are engraved in an entwined style at the end of the stem. The hallmarks are clearly stamped on the back of the bowl but the maker's mark has been badly mis-struck. The mark was struck on a curve and only part of the first letter and its curved punch is visible. To the left of the maker's mark is a capital H, which was the journeyman's mark. Beneath is struck a dot within a circle.
	Maker :- George Adams (probably)

Condition :-Very good indeed, with crisp definition to the spoon's pattern and to the engraving of the initials. The hallmarks are excellent except for the maker's mark which has been mis-struck
Hallmarked :- London 1874
Size :- 5.1 inches (12.95 cm) long
Weight :- 0.94 ozt (29 g)
The presumption that George Adams was the maker of this spoon is based on the fact that what can be seen of the maker's mark looks very much like the beginning of George Adams' mark, together with the fact that the very rare Beaded Knurled pattern is illustrated in the Chawner & Co. Pattern Book in the second half of the 19th century. George Adams was the sole partner of Chawner & Co. until 1883. Under Adams' name, Chawner & Co.'s main production was very high quality silver spoons and forks, both in traditional patterns but also in their own more elaborate patterns, such as Palm, Grecian, Tudor, Corinthian and Beaded Knurled. Sugar spoons are often also called preserve spoons. In fact, their use if far more versatile and they can easily be used for serving cranberry (or other) jelly, mayonnaise or horseradish sauce, or any other thick sauce or relish.

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