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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 824555, member: 25&quot;]<i>They also each have a family crest? on the back,</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>At the time, that was the front. Up until the later 18th C., spoons and forks were laid &#039;face down&#039; rather than the way we lay them now, I have no idea why, and why it changed, but with later flatware you will see the crest on the business side. The early terminals bend the other way as well. </p><p>It is pretty easy to spot an early spoon at a distance.</p><p><br /></p><p>The last maker appears to be WC, possibly too early for William Chawner a &#039;prolific spoon maker&#039;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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