The tablespoon is of a nice, heavy weight and very balanced in the hand. The initials ME on the back of the spoon probably date to post-1750, so there likely could have been an erasure of earlier initials or a crest, although I don't see signs of it. Hitchcock entered his first mark in 1713, and I like that this spoon dates to the first year of Hitchcock's career. There are three teaspoons by Hitchcock also in my collection, which you can read about here.
Sources:
Pickford, Ian, ed. Jackson's Silver & Gold Marks of England, Scotland & Ireland. 3rd ed., 1989. Woodbridge:
The Antique Collectors' Club, Ltd., 2011. Print.
