Hello Peter, I thank you very much. I have only one Foto of the date letter. I think, it is not good enough. I have the spoon not here. But I think I can tomorrow make a better Foto.
Hello, a friend of mine got an old silver spoon an ask me to help him. The spoon looks to me like made in the Netherlands, so I would like to ask you for some help. I have no idea, if the spoon is an original or if he was made later. Kind regards, Ringo https://bilderupload.org/image/thumbnail/resiz...
I can offer Isaak Stael vrom the city of Emden in East Frisia, Lower Saxony, northern Germany. He became Master 1704. I am not sure, but region and style fit well.
Hello jldtwo, these spoons with mostly red glas stones were very popular in the west of Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany, in the first half of the 19th century. The usage of this stones started at the end of the 18th century on late spoons with hannoverian pattern. In the first half of the 19th ...
Hello Scotrab, your assumption is completely right. I just read in the book "Baltisches Silber" from Annelore Leistikow: "Im Jahre 1840 wurde die Reorganisation des staatlichen Kontrollsystems für Metallarbeiten im ganzen russischen Imperium vorgenommen. Für die baltischen Goldschmied...
Hello, I agree completely with Sasropakis and Theoderich that the spoon is younger. So Christian Schubert I is of cause indeet impossible and to my opinion even Christian Schubert II is problematic. The only spoons from Danzig /Gdansk made about 1700 I know are Apostel spoons. I do not know, when th...
Hello Goldstein, after some years I´m back in the forum. By chance I got today a very similar spoon with a similar decoration and the same inscription "Hans Diedr. Schmidt Pernau". Only the year is different (1873). Unfortunately there are also no makers marks. This seems to be not unusual...
Hello, after a long time I found the way back to this forum. A friend of mine has got a silver basket and he asked me for informations about it. I answered, that I have no idea. May be the experts in this forum can help. I think the basket was made about 1900. kind regards, Ringo https://www.925-100...
Hello Gerox, from Kremnitz I know no maker with the name Fray. But in Kremnitz have worked several Goldsmithes from the family FRAJZAJZEN (Freizeisen, Freiszeizen, ...). May be "FRAY" is a makersmark from a member of this family. But sadly the five examples I know, have worked in the first...
up to now the "HI" with dot mark from Breslau was dedicated to Hans Jachman (jun.), Master since 1681 (His father, Master since 1638 was assigned the mark "HI" without dot). But the city mark "W" in a circle was common in the mid of the 17th. century. So if the chronolo...