Contemporary with the apostle spoons were other types. The terms now applied to them are purely collectors’ names. There was the acorn terminal, the seated lion with a shield (_lion sejant_), the seated owl, the pineapple, the mitre, and the head of the Virgin, which continued for a long period and is now known as the Maidenhead variety. But the most common was the seal-top with baluster ornament, which form lasted well into the seventeenth century. We illustrate an example with the London hall-mark for 1652. It will be noticed that the hall-mark appears in the bowl of the spoon. This is the leopard’s head, and may be observed in all early spoons of the apostle and kindred classes. The Slipped-stalk Spoon During the reign of Charles I (1625-49) the bowl of the spoon began to take different proportions, and to depart from the pear-like form. It became more oval and narrower at the base and wider near the stem. But in regard to evolution of form, the modern spoon, as is readily seen, is an inversion of the bowl. It is egg-shaped, but the narrowest part is now away from the handle, whereas formerly the narrowest part was joined to the handle. All the sixteenth and seventeenth century spoons show the old form and the later spoons show the opposite. The innovation is shown in the illustration, given on page 185, of early eighteenth-century examples. The slipped-stalk spoon was simply a radical departure from excessive ornament. It may have been on account of religious motives, it may have been by reason of economy. Obviously such a spoon cost less to produce without its terminal figure. Hence we have the slipped-in-the-stalk variety which was cut off transversely as shown in the illustration (p. 181) of an example dated 1651, during the Civil War, which form readily developed into the so-called Puritan spoon with plain, flat handle, which shortly exhibited wider ends. Of this style two examples are illustrated (p. 181). [Illustration: SEVENTEENTH AND EARLY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SPOONS. APOSTLE SPOON. St. Simon Zelotes. Exeter hall-mark. Date pricked on back, 1674. FLAT-STEM SPOON. Trefoil top. Rat’s-tail back. Maker, probably Thomas Simpson. Exeter hall-mark 1712. (_In possession of Messrs. J. Ellett Lake & Son, Exeter._) LOBED-END SPOON. Showing both sides. 1679. (_At Victoria and Albert Museum._)] The Trifid Spoon