Lot 228
ELGIN - A VERY RARE SCOTTISH PROVINCIAL TABLESPOON
WILLIAM LIVINGSTONE
Auction: Day Two | Thursday 20 August from 10am | Lots 199 - 555
Description
Marked WL (conjoined), ELG (serif above), gothic O, of ribbed Hanoverian pattern with long rat tail to bowl, later engraved script M
Dimensions
20cm long, 2oz
Provenance
Scottish Silver, Lyon & Turnbull 13th February 2008, lot 87
Footnote
William Livingstone is among the earliest Elgin silversmiths with work still extant, the only other possible contender being William Scott, who is known from circa 1708. Livingstone was the maker of the Communion beakers for Dundurcas Parish (the Kirks of Rothes and Boharm) (see Burn Communion plate p381 for details of the beaker and p523 for details of the maker). These beakers are marked with the same marks as this spoon; it does not appear he changed his pseudo date letter through his career.
Work by this maker is extremely rare, and to date only a small number of tablespoons and the above communion beakers are recorded.