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you can start by polishing - you can do no harm. Use man-power, no mashines. I cannot open pictures - try posting new polished pictures. Without Bremen mark, 800 or half moon&crown almost no chance that it is silver. Sorry about that; I guess the "free" imagehost site is worth what I'...

Thanks for the help on the baby-food pusher! I have another question. I've already looked through the website and searched the forum, but I can't identify this spoon's composition & age. I've put this post in the silverplate forum because I'm just not able to tell. http://h.imagehost.org/t/0815/...

I'll be darned. Glad I asked-- I never would have figured that out. That fits the family history; my grandfather was born in 1904 and my grandmother a few years later. It appears that the maker's mark is upside down next to the word "sterling"... or the word is upside down next to the mark...

Mods, if you have the vocabulary I'm seeking then feel free to move this post where it belongs. Kinda hard to search for words I don't know. I'm finally cleaning out a box of my long-deceased grandparent's “heirlooms”, including a rack of sterling silver souvenir spoons. We have no stories or dates ...