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The records of the London goldsmiths' Garrard for 1760 include customer orders for spoons and forks which are described as 'turn'd back'. This is almost certainly a reference to pieces like this, in which the finial turns back or down so that they can be laid on the table with the bowl or tines uppermost (as we would set them on the table today). Turned back finials are unlike the French patterns which English goldsmiths imitated during the second half of the eighteenth century, and consequently this distinctive style has come to be known as 'Old English'. This example is rather early for a style that was first produced in quantity in the 1760s. The solder mark visible on the stem, just above the bowl, suggests this spoon may originally have been of Hanoverian type, with the finial turned the other way. The stem was broken and re-soldered to convert the spoon to the more fashionable 'old English' pattern.","physicalDescription":"silver, old English pattern with a double drop at the heel. The stem near the bowl appears to have snapped and been resoldered.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Soame, William","id":"A34573"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"x40240"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"silver","id":"AAT11029"}],"techniques":[{"text":"forging (metal forming)","id":"AAT54033"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Silver, forged","categories":[{"text":"Eating","id":"THES48963"},{"text":"Metalwork","id":"THES48920"},{"text":"Tableware & cutlery","id":"THES48888"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"MET","id":"THES48599"},"images":["2020MP1258","2020MP1259","2020MP1260","2020MP1261"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"005","id":"THES408920"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Spoon","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"No","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1733-1734","earliest":"1733-05-29","latest":"1734-05-28"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Gift of J.H. 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