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by paulh
Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:22 am
Forum: Family Crests
Topic: Mystery Crest
Replies: 0
Views: 82

Mystery Crest

This is a bit of a long shot but does anyone recognise this crest. It is on a silver knife by Greychev Bros. St. Petersburg c1900. The Cyrillic inscription translates to "Russian Fleet

Paul.
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by paulh
Sun Jul 30, 2023 11:45 am
Forum: Irish Hallmarks
Topic: Exporter and Importer
Replies: 1
Views: 2890

Exporter and Importer

Here is a strange thing which I came across recently. This is a "Glug Glug" decanter. So called because of the glugging sound it makes when being filled or emptied. It has nice set of Hukin & Heath marks for Birmingham 1928. It also has a set of Dublin import marks, also for Hukin &...
by paulh
Mon May 29, 2023 11:07 am
Forum: Provincial & Colonial Marks
Topic: Dognose teaspoon.
Replies: 0
Views: 1477

Dognose teaspoon.

I am putting this in Provincial and Colonial because I am having fruitless searches elsewhere. This is nice little dognose teaspoon with the maker’s mark of IH or HI with a drop pellet between the letters. I have search through Grimwade, Chaffers and Jackson without success, to find the maker. I hav...
by paulh
Wed Apr 05, 2023 3:56 pm
Forum: Provincial & Colonial Marks
Topic: Fiddle Teaspon
Replies: 7
Views: 1988

Re: Fiddle Teaspon

dognose wrote: Tue Mar 28, 2023 1:49 pm I find nothing in my American, Canadian or Indian references.

Trev.
Nothing in any of my books. Cape, Canada or Chinese export. I have been through Bermuda, Scotland and Australia plus all manner of other places 00without success.
by paulh
Mon Mar 27, 2023 6:03 am
Forum: Provincial & Colonial Marks
Topic: Fiddle Teaspon
Replies: 7
Views: 1988

Re: Fiddle Teaspon

It should be entitled "Fiddle Teaspoon" of course!
by paulh
Mon Mar 27, 2023 5:59 am
Forum: Provincial & Colonial Marks
Topic: Fiddle Teaspon
Replies: 7
Views: 1988

Fiddle Teaspon

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This is just an ordinary fiddle teaspoon, but the origin is proving elusive. Any ideas?
by paulh
Sat Dec 24, 2022 8:17 am
Forum: Mystery Objects
Topic: Odd tongs.
Replies: 6
Views: 2475

Re: Odd tongs.

Being of sugar nip size I think that they are for individual use.
by paulh
Sat Dec 17, 2022 11:07 am
Forum: Mystery Objects
Topic: Odd tongs.
Replies: 6
Views: 2475

Re: Odd tongs.

I have been reliably informed that they are watercress Tongs. Apparently watercress became hugely fashionable and popular in the early 1800s.
by paulh
Mon Dec 12, 2022 6:38 am
Forum: Mystery Objects
Topic: Odd tongs.
Replies: 6
Views: 2475

Odd tongs.

This is a bit of an oddity. It is 5 inches in length with a spring action. It has one arm with head with four flat ended tines and the other head with a spade like feature. It is not bowled like a spoon but just a flattened curve. It has a Sheffield hallmark for 1820. The immediate thought is “sugar...
by paulh
Fri Nov 18, 2022 12:21 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Reference Books for Bermuda & West Indies ?
Replies: 2
Views: 2157

Re: Reference Books for Bermuda & West Indies ?

Try “Bermuda’s Antique Furniture & Silver” by Bryden Bordley Hyde
Published by Bermuda National Trust, 1971.

Good Luck!

Paul.
by paulh
Thu Aug 11, 2022 11:04 am
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Silver plate date letters.
Replies: 3
Views: 2676

Re: Silver plate date letters.

Hello Trev. What a challenge! I was hoping that there would be a nice convenient record somewhere. I have all sorts of pieces with "date letters" but it is almost impossible to date them accurately. Presentaion engravings help in some cases, but htere is nothing to say that the engraved pi...
by paulh
Mon Aug 08, 2022 4:44 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Silver plate date letters.
Replies: 3
Views: 2676

Re: Silver plate date letters.

paulh wrote:Does anyone know if any records of silver plate
date letters for manufacturers such as Mappin and Webb, Martin, Hall & Co and James Dixon?
I have date letters for Walker and Hall and Elkington, but would like to find others.
by paulh
Mon Aug 08, 2022 4:42 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Silver plate date letters.
Replies: 3
Views: 2676

Silver plate date letters.

Does anyone know if any records of silver plate
date letters for manufacturers such as Mappin and Webb, Martin, Hall & Co and James Dixon?
by paulh
Tue Jul 12, 2022 3:34 pm
Forum: Sheffield Hallmarks
Topic: Unusual hallmark
Replies: 2
Views: 2248

Re: Unusual hallmark

That looks like the Agnus Dei, the Lamb of God, but I don't know why it is included in a Vander's hallmark.
by paulh
Mon Jan 03, 2022 5:18 pm
Forum: Provincial & Colonial Marks
Topic: DB on a Bright Cut Table Spoon
Replies: 6
Views: 5516

Re: DB on a Bright Cut Table Spoon

I know what you mean about the Channel Islands. I do have a C. I. spoon with that crossed L. A duty dodger is a possibility.
by paulh
Mon Jan 03, 2022 12:39 pm
Forum: Provincial & Colonial Marks
Topic: DB on a Bright Cut Table Spoon
Replies: 6
Views: 5516

Re: DB on a Bright Cut Table Spoon

Hello Aguest, Thank you for your response. I did consider Daniel Beets, but the “D” on this spoon is very distinctive and does not match any examples of his punch which I have seen. He was also working rather later than the style of spoon would suggest. Although style in colonial silver cannot reall...
by paulh
Sun Jan 02, 2022 12:18 pm
Forum: British Hallmarks - Single Image
Topic: Banff?
Replies: 2
Views: 4102

Re: Banff?

Hello Trev,

That was the only person who came close, but I can't find an exact match. It may be that the mark is so distorted that what I am seeing as a pellet after the "M" is the bottom of the "c".

Happy New Year.

Paul.
by paulh
Sun Jan 02, 2022 8:37 am
Forum: British Hallmarks - Single Image
Topic: Banff?
Replies: 2
Views: 4102

Banff?

This is the mark on an Old English pattern tea spoon. It is difficult to see from the pictures, but there is a rubbed mark on the left which I can just make out to be a capital “B”. There is an “H” then a maker’s mark and then what appears to be an “R”. The maker’s mark seems to be “M• ?”. I have se...
by paulh
Sat Jan 01, 2022 1:00 pm
Forum: Provincial & Colonial Marks
Topic: DB on a Bright Cut Table Spoon
Replies: 6
Views: 5516

DB on a Bright Cut Table Spoon

This is an ordinary bright cut table spoon, but all of my searches cannot trace the maker. It is “DB” struck twice, with a crossed downstroke on the “D” Any ideas anyone?

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by paulh
Tue Nov 23, 2021 8:40 am
Forum: Mystery Objects
Topic: Mystery mark.
Replies: 6
Views: 3310

Re: Mystery mark.

So true about accountants running businesses about which they know nothing. I left the silver business when the family buisness I worked for brought in a team from the cheaper end of the shoe trade. They could just about tell you that forks were the spikey ones!

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