George III Silver Basting Spoon, London 1812

• George Iii - George III (1738 - 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820.
• 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.
• Engraving - The method of decorating or creating inscriptions on silver and other metal objects by marking the surface with a sharp instrument such as a diamond point or rotating cutting wheel.

This item has been included into following indexes:

• Fearn, William (London) - silver, maker or retailer 161
• silver cutlery / flatware, patterns - fiddle and thread pattern 260
• Smith III, George and William Fearn (London) - silver, maker or retailer 175
• spoons, silver - basting 286