Silver Sprinkling Spoon Or Sprinkler, Valenciennes, 1787

- Sugar spoon or sprinkler
- Hammered, embossed, cast and chased silver
- Valenciennes, 1787
- Master silversmith: a fleur-de-lis (?)
- Length: 19.5 cm, diameter 6.3 cm; weight: 71g
- Very good condition, no restoration
- Provenance: azure coat of arms with a gold band and six bezants of the same (19th century, coat of arms undetermined, many families bear these coats of arms)

- Spoon with a single line at the spoon with a double line at the mouth, pierced with a decoration around a central rosette of fleurs-de-lis alternating with stars and irises.

- Hallmarks (on the stem): warden's mark: a spindle with the numbers 8 and 7 on either side for 1787 [Helft, p.149, n°169 (of the Almananch/170], hallmark of the community according to the reform of May 26, 1784 for which Bernier was responsible for engraving the 178 hallmarks of the goldsmith communities and published in L'Almanach des Monnoies in 1786.; Master goldsmith: fleur-de-lis (is it a goldsmith hallmark?)
- Ref.: [Lille] Cartier, Nicole: “Les orfèvres de Lille”, Vol I & II, Cahier du Patrimoine, 2007; [Douai] Cartier, Nicole: “Les orfèvresd e Douai”, Cahier du Patrimoine, 1995; [Arras] Cartier, Nicole: “Les orfèvres d'Arras”, Mont-Saint-Eloi, published by the author, 1983; Helft, Jacques: "Les Nouveaux Poinçons ", by Nobele, 1981