Stuart connections boost bids from spoons to snuffboxes
This pair of Hanoverian pattern tablespoons offered at Woolley & Wallis, right, is of interest not just for the unascribed and possibly Scottish marks but for the scratched initials RP and the lightly engraved iconography of a crown, a cardinal’s hat and the name Henry Stuart.
The engraving was probably early 19th century but the spoons dated from c.1745, when the second son …