About Us

The Colin and Susan Ticktum Charitable Trust was set up by Mr & Mrs C Ticktum to further their interests in research and to provide a continuing form for their Collections rather than seeing them dispersed.

Mrs Ticktum’s interest is primarily Costume and Textile but at this point in time collecting in this field has taken a back seat, as there are important local collections of national importance available for study at the Norwich Castle Museum.

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	Initially the Trust will concentrate on silver and in particular British Silver Spoons including English, Scottish, Irish and Channel Islands, an area in which the Trustees are major collectors and have a wide knowledge. This has been a rather neglected aspect of silver collecting which is unfortunate since it has formed an important part of British social history for a millennium.

Hopefully the Trust will be able to help redress the balance by supporting research and other projects in the field. Another small but highly significant collection is of silver connected with the East Anglia area including Norwich where there was an Assay between 1565-1702. Additionally it covers many of the small towns in the area such as Beccles, Bury St Edmunds, Great Yarmouth, Ipswich, Kings Lynn Thetford and North Suffolk.


	Naturally the Trust has extensive archives both written and photographic all in digital form. It hopes to make these available through the Website to collectors, researchers and other interested bodies. Its intention is to gradually extend the material available, possibly providing advice as well in its area of expertise, plus direct access to the collections by appointment.




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	To this end a start has already been made for in addition to the site is has already published a detailed catalogue of the spoon collection “The Ticktum Collection” in two volumes, Volume I the text, Volume II the photographic archive. Additionally there is a DVD called “A Brief History of the Spoon” and the Photographic Archive is available on disc.

A book entitled Norwich Silver has recently been published covering the history of the Norwich Assay, the surviving secular pieces, the goldsmiths who worked in the city over six hundred years and how it all fitted into the social and economic history of the period when the City was the second only to London in the whole of England.

It is hoped that a second book covering Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridge will be published along similar lines in the near future.