George III Silver Strainer Spoon, London 1813

• Marrow Spoon - A spoon with a long handle and a narrow scoop shaped bowl, used to scoop and eat marrow from the hollow centre of roasted bones. Some marrow scoops are double ended with a different shaped bowl at each end.
• Sterling Silver - Sterling silver is a mixture of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% of another metal, usually copper. Fine silver is 99.9% pure silver, and is relatively soft and the addition of the very small amount of copper gives the metal enough strength and hardness to be worked into jewellery, decorative and household objects.
• George Iii - George III (1738 - 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820.

This item has been included into following indexes:

• Fearn, William (London) - silver, maker or retailer 161
• Smith III, George and William Fearn (London) - silver, maker or retailer 175
• spoons, silver
  • other, various types and periods 1,227
  • straining 25
  • straining spoons 37