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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 11864, member: 25&quot;]The big clue to the age of the spoon is that the marks are what would then have been the back of the spoon, because the 18th C table was laid with the pieces what we&#039;d now call &#039;face down&#039;. You can more commonly see this in monogrammed spoons and forks in the way the handle curves at the end and the side that the monogram is on. </p><p><br /></p><p>Curl &#039;forward&#039;, monogram on &#039;back&#039; equals early, curl &#039;backwards&#039;, monogram on front equals 19th C, when for some unknown reason everyone started laying the table with the spoons and forks face up instead of face down.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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