Eight (8) East Tennessee coin silver or sterling spoons including: Two (2) tablespoons and one (1) teaspoon with swell handles and rounded fins, stamped S. BELL in rectangles for Samuel Bell, b. 1797-d. 1881, working Knoxville, TN 1819-1852 and later, Texas; one (1) teaspoon with swell handle and rounded fins marked for David Large Hope of Knoxville, working 1828-1869, incuse mark HOPE with Masonic symbol inside stem; and four (4) early Knoxville, Tennessee silver tablespoons, fiddle-tipt pattern, 3 marked on back HOPE & MILLER (Knoxville, circa 1870) and 1 marked HOPE BROS & CO. All pieces with script monograms and range in size from 5 5/8" L to 8 1/4". Coin silver weighs: 2.675 troy ounces. Sterling weighs: 5.420 troy ounces.

CONDITION: All pieces with a script monogram. 1 Hope & Miller tablespoon with shallow denting to the center of the bowl. Both of the teaspoons with scattered pitting and denting to bowls and wear to handles. Remaining 2 Bell tablespoons with minor pitting and wear to handles.