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Retailed by Thomas W. Purdy, Newburgh NY c 1860; manufactured (wholesale) by John L. Westervelt

Isaac Henry Weston, jeweler in Portland ME c 1860

I have seen the mark with and without wholesale marks. Winterthur has several pieces such.

Sunderlin (Lewis) & Weaver (Devalson), Rochester c 1865

I have gone through the Myers book and found no matching initials. From known owners, the initial order appears two ways: M(ary) over R(obert) • L(ivngston) -- given/given/surname and M(oses) over I(saac) • R(eyna) -- surname/given/given Here is my example, also with untraced initials. It measures 8...

More than likely; standard shop wares of the period. There are various tests available to be conclusive, but would probably cost more than the spoon is worth.

well traveled

sorry, found my notes --

Joseph Lee
Lancaster and Camden, SC 1774-1814

Is this the same?



Maker not known per Winterthur.

Can you shoot the mark with more of a racking light (right and left)? Might bring out more form.

Levi B. Gay, watchmaker and jeweler, Nashua, NH 1856-1865, then Boston, MA 1865-c. 1875.

this needs to be moved to the Coin Silversmiths forum

That should have read "The marks, ALMOST always in that order..."

These pseudo marks are associated with the wholesale manufacture of (Philo B.) Gilbert, (Daniel) Cunningham & Co, NYC c 1840. The marks, always in that order, though often erratically stamped as here, are fairly common and found with the mark of retailers mostly in NYC, but as far south as Charl...

Okay; I misunderstood your reply. To your last, Charles Jewett Wingate and Frederick Wingate were 1st cousins, once removed.

Daddy Winnie's work

Who is this? Frederick's father was not a smith, that I know of.

It is hard to make out from your mark image, but check the G -- in Frederick's mark, it is noticeably below the line

He is listed as an artist in the 1860 census, watch maker in 1870, and farmer in 1880.

All I have seen is this entry (which I have truncated) in Goodspeed Publishing's History of Tennessee , 1886: HILL, James Bryan ; jeweler of Fayetteville, Tenn ., was born 6 June 1832 in Fayetteville. Lincoln County, Tenn.: son of Ebenezer and Mary Tate (Bryan) Hill. . . He was educated in the schoo...