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Help identifying some unusual marks on a spoon
Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2017 6:51 pm
by Twilight
please can anyone help identify the mark and who was made by
Re: Help identifying some unusual marks on a spoon
Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2017 7:02 pm
by Twilight
[img][/img][quote="Twilight"]please can anyone help identify the mark and who was made it has a H then a building then HALL. Then a flag or pennant with what looks like a W but cannot male out the other letter then a sideways diamond
Re: Help identifying some unusual marks on a spoon
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 12:19 am
by oel
Re: Help identifying some unusual marks on a spoon
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 4:06 am
by Twilight
please can anyone help identify the mark and who was made it has a H then a building then HALL. Then a flag or pennant with what looks like a W but cannot male out the other letter then a sideways diamond[/quote]
Re: Help identifying some unusual marks on a spoon
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 4:08 am
by oel
Re: Help identifying some unusual marks on a spoon
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 4:14 am
by Twilight
Twilight wrote:
please can anyone help identify the mark and who was made it has a H then a building then HALL. Then a flag or pennant with what looks like a W but cannot male out the other letter then a sideways diamond
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Re: Help identifying some unusual marks on a spoon
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 4:16 am
by silvermakersmarks
The mark between H and HALL is not a building. It would appear that somebody, for whatever reason, has deliberately erased the bit in between and added the H and the + signs in the process.
Phil
Re: Help identifying some unusual marks on a spoon
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 4:35 am
by Twilight
Hi on the front it has pitsmoor schools june 22nd 1811 with G v R insignia like you get on post boxes , and walker and hall looking at that info they were a lot later than that date , thanks for info btw
Re: Help identifying some unusual marks on a spoon
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 5:12 am
by oel
It is GR for George(5th or v)Rex (King). The letters are called the “Royal Cypher” and they signify the King (Rex) or Queen(Regina) that was the monarch at the time when the postbox was erected.
GvR could be the initials of a person and the date on the emblem is not necessary the date the spoon was made. Emblem date could be a remembrance/celebration date added on a spoon made and presented much later.
Oel.
Re: Help identifying some unusual marks on a spoon
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 5:40 am
by dognose
Re: "H Hall Silver"
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 6:13 am
by Twilight
Wow thank yours looks just like mine been researching myself about pitsmoor it's a presentation spoon for the coronation of George 5th and I've cleaned it now and date is 1911 from the school in pitsmoor Sheffield , I have contacted a f b page for pitsmoor to show them but thank you so much you been brilliant
Re: Help identifying some unusual marks on a spoon
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 7:43 am
by oel
Yes, June 22nd 1911 GvR nearly the same letter type;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Geor ... tion_Medal
Oel.