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The style emerged in England in  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 ridge, or 'rat-tail' at the heel of this example (where  the stem joins the bowl) is characteristic of spoons made before 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) and this is why the initials of the original owner are engraved on what we  would now think of as the back of the spoon. This arrangement followed French fashions, which had developed at the end of the seventeenth century. The three initials engraved on the finial are almost certainly those of a husband and his wife. The top initial is the man's family name; the two letters below are the initials of the first name of the husband and wife. 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