Pick of the week: Disc-end spoon discovery scoops £21,000

While most early Scottish spoon types follow closely known and comparable patterns from England or mainland Europe, the ‘disc-end’ is an exception. Made for perhaps a century from c.1580, it is a form seemingly unique to Scotland.

The sale of Scottish Works of Art & Whisky at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh on August 12 in…

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