This is a copy of the insert info that came with the Geddy Spoon

From the Colonial Williamsburg website comes the following information on 16th century silver spoons.

Metal spoons were rare in the 1770’s and silver spoons were exceptionally valuable. You know that the loss of 4 silver spoons must have caused great alarm and a lot of finger pointing in this household at the time of the loss. Another thought is that perhaps they were buried there to protect them* during the Revolutionary War. The person who buried them could have died during the war... and the hiding place lost to time. To have four silver spoons, this must have been a very wealthy family.

*In a similar vein, When my father was a child during WWII, my great-grandmother was still alive. They lived in Norfolk Virginia on the Chesapeake Bay. She had been a small child during the civil war and remembered the yankee soldiers coming through and taking anything of value. During WWII,  she was quite aged and a bit disorientated by the talk of war. Navy ships in the Bay would fire their guns in practice. Hearing this she would bury anything of value in the sand dunes behind the family home. My father reports that many of the items were never recovered, as she could not remember where she buried them. She would also let the chickens out to run free, many of them never to return.  With war shortages, those “free range” chickens would disappear into neighbors ovens.

After Stieff, the spoon was briefly made for Colonial Williamsburg by Reed & Barton. The spoon is no longer in production.