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This spoon is a typical example of a type popular across Europe in the first decade  of the eighteenth century until about 1770. The style emerged in England around 1710, and has become known as 'Hanoverian' because it was popular  during the reigns of the first two Hanoverian monarchs (George I and George II), who ruled between 1714-1760. The drop at the heel of this example (where  the stem joins the bowl) is characteristic of spoons made after around 1730. The finial of the spoon has been designed so that the spoon can be placed on the table with its open bowl down (the opposite of how it would be set on the table  today). 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