Late 14th century AD. A silver spoon with ovoid bowl and tapering lozenge-section stem, finial in the form of an acorn with hatched detailing, small incised 'W' on the bowl. Cf. The Metropolitan Meum, accession numbers 55.42.2 and 55.42.10, for similar; cf. The British Meum, meum number 1965,0207.1, for similar. 12.1 grams, 12.7cm wide (5"). UK art market. Private collection of a Devon gentleman. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is apanied by AIAD certificate number no.11110-182444. The first known reference to an acorn knop appears in a will of 1348 AD. In the will, one John de Holegh bequeathed '12 silver spoons with akernes' to a Thomas Taillour. Later references to such acorn-knop spoons indicate that the finials were gilded as were those of other types of silver spoons of this period.