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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 9795161, member: 111&quot;]Eh - just junk, will gladly take it off your hands and dispose of it properly (seriously, bit of spoon envy here).&nbsp; Although ball knop spoons were certainly made elsewhere, this one is most likely Scandinavian, probably Norwegian - could be late 16th century, but similar were made well into the 17th, and were also produced later as a historical style (often with dates that suggested earlier manufacture).&nbsp; In Norwegian, it&#039;s a &#039;kuleskje&#039; (ball spoon), and everything about it looks good, though the majority have twist stems (other form finials also found), the acanthus motif engraving in the bowl and leaves on the stem, even the fancy shield cartouche on the maker&#039;s mark (I also read it as &#039;IN&#039; or &#039;NI&#039;) are found on kuleskje - the scratched mark under the &#039;IG&#039; owner&#039;s mark is likely a &#039;bomerke&#039; (house mark), a symbol used to mark the property of a household/family, I&#039;ve run across them a few other times on old Nordic silver. </p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry, no time right now to do any research, and there&#039;s a good chance the maker is unknown - you might want to present it on the 925-1000 forums...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A 2012 auction catalog showing Scandinavian spoons, most with marks shown, on pages 100-107:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://issuu.com/jammdesign/docs/ww102-158_silver/106" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://issuu.com/jammdesign/docs/ww102-158_silver/106" rel="nofollow">https://issuu.com/jammdesign/docs/ww102-158_silver/106</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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