Lot 369
Elgin - a pair of Scottish provincial dessert spoons
Auction: 19 August 2013 at 15:00 BST
£375
Description
William Ferguson, one marked WF, S, I, L, V, E, R (WF over the SI), the other marked S, I, L, V, E, R, of Fiddle pattern with engraved script initials 'Mc' to terminal (2)
Dimensions
17.5cm long, each 42.4g
Footnote
Notes:
this previously unrecorded set of marks for William Ferguson of Elgin are highly unusual. The use of the word 'silver' as part of marks is not noted on much, if any, Scottish silver until much later into the late 1890's or even 1900's.