Old English serving spoon with pointed oval bowl and rounded downturned handle with midrib on back and foliate script "C" engraved on front; no shoulders. Swage-formed drop on back of bowl. Struck on back of handle with maker's mark "C•D" in raised serif letters in rectangle to left of five hallmarks, Newcastle city mark of three towers in round-bottom shield, lion passant facing left in clipped-corner surround, sovereign's head facing right in profile in oval, crowned leopard's head in round-bottom shield, and Newcastle raised roman date letter "L" in a square.
Maker is Christopher Dinsdale I of Newcastle, England; active circa 1800. Dinsdale's sons, Christopher Dinsdale II and Cuthbert Dinsdale, both used an identical mark.