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the first with oval bowl 9cm wide including double pouring lips and with piecrust rim, the base of the bowl set with a Queen Anne shilling (1711), the flat strip mount flaring to a short tubular socket holding the twisted baleen handle topped with a simple pointed silver terminal, overall length 35cm; the second with circular bowl 6cm diameter and 3cm deep decorated with repoussé flower and scroll decoration, the rim with the words ' +DECVS. ET. TVTAMEN. ANNO. REGNI. SEXTO.', the base of the bowl set with a Queen Anne shilling (1711), the simple conical tubular socket holding the twisted baleen handle topped with a plain silver terminal, overall length 37cm; the third with circular bowl 5.5mm diameter and 3.5cm deep decorated with repoussé 'dots and lines' decoration around a monogrammed cartouche, the base of the bowl set with a Queen Anne sixpence (1710), the simple conical tubular socket holding the twisted baleen handle topped with a plain silver terminal, overall length 32cm (3)

Footnote: The bowl of the second example was made by hammering out a Queen Anne crown coin dated 1707. The inscription to the rim of the bowl translates as "An ornament and a safeguard in the sixth year of her reign." and was stamped to the edge of pre union silver crowns.

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