Youghal basting spoon draws interest in Salisbury
Alongside pieces made in Kinsale, Galway and Waterford, silver from the small County Cork town of Youghal is among the scarcest of all Irish provincial silver. Only a handful of pieces survive that carry the punning town mark of a yawl.
This 4oz, 13in (33cm) long Hanoverian rat-tail pattern basting spoon (above) is struck EG for Edwa…