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Good afternoon Silverstone, Congratulations! A very nice and well presented collection of Captain's Spoons. J. Mitchell & Co can be found in the 1846 address book for Riga as "Mitchell J. (& T. A.). Kaufm. 1., ausländ. Gast; Firma: "Mitchell & Co.", Comptoirist und Schiffs...

Many thanks Ringo! I am extremely pleased that my assumption that was unfounded up to your message has been proved correct by the well-known authority of Prof. Annelore Leistikow. I simply had not been able to find another plausible explanation. Thank you for the quotation from A. Leistikow's book. ...

Happy New Year to all of you, for a successful and less stressful 2022. My comments refer specifically to the previous submissions by Goldstein and Ringo regarding unmarked captain's spoons from Pernau. I have been interested in captain's spoons for several years, not so much for the spoons themselv...

The maker: Carl (Heinrich Ludwig) Zimmermann; Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, exclave in Russia), b. ca. 1793, jeweler, gold- and silversmith 1822, d. 1860. Date letter T. for 1836. Numerous objects by him are known. Sources: 1) E. von Czihak, Die Edelschmiedekunst früherer Zeiten in Preussen , II. Kön...

I attach here below two image of a teaspoon I obtained recently. The austro-hungarian mark shows clearly the mark used 1807-1866 by the office in Lemberg, Galizien (Lwów in polish, L'vov in russian, now L'viv in Ukraine) with tha date of 1865. Tha maker's mark is AA. I do not have any references at ...

Additionally to the coat of arms, has the spoon also got an inscription on the handle?

Thank you in advance for your answer!

Hmmm, I left out the year of his marriage: 18 September 1838.
Sorry...

I am sure that Theo will confirm, it is after all on his website, but the spoon was made in Flensburg by Christian Friedrich Wohlberg, b. 9 January 1809, d. 29 July 1887. Married 18 September Maria Margaretha Dorothea Christiansen. On his death he left a daughter of 41 years, Christine Agatha Emilie...

Trev is right, I misread the date: it is 1819. It changes, however, very little to the issue of the time difference between dates of making and presetation.

Robert

A good question... It is quite possible that his widow continued the business, but in the references available to me ( A. Leistikow, Baltisches Silber , 1996; K. Kirme, Eesti Hobe , 2000; A. Reinans, Hobedamärgid Eestis , 2005) there's no mention of it. I think furthermore that all three authors too...

Good afternoon, As already indicated by Ubaranda, the maker of your spoon is Johann Ernst Krüger, originally from the Baltic city of Wismar in Mecklenburg. He was active between 1767 and 1796. The merchant house of H. Harder & Co. was active from the early years of 1800: in 1811 they advertised ...

Small correction: the maker's mark on my spoon should be И•Л• and not И•Л. as I wrote before. Apologies.

A remainder bump... Thank you! In the meantime I found online the two Ivanov volumes but unfortunately they are not much help to me. Ivanov shows about 9 makers with initials ИЛ of the right period but does not show any actual marks... And Bäcksbacka shows only one "unknown maker" (no. 817...

This is a Captain's Spoon from the Narva trading house G. E. Gendt & Co. issued in 1864 and assayed in St. Petersburg by Aleksandr Nikolayevich Mitin (PL 1174, 1175). I have not been able to find the maker ИЛ: PL shows only two marks of the right period (1293, 1294) and only one mark is a square...

Hello, AG2012 is correct. There are several assay masters in the 18th century signing with various forms of the letter L. However, the specific form of L on the object is attributed by E. von Czihak to Johann Constantin Lange, alderman 1755, 1761, (E. von Czihak, Die Edelschmiedekunst früherer Zeite...

Hello,

I read the letter in the mark as M, in which case it is not Lemberg (Lwów, Lvov, Lviv) but Brody, a town about 90 kilometres northeast of Lviv, now in Ukraine, still in Galicia (Galizien).

Regards

Hello, The Assay Master is Ludwig Christian Zuk, in office in Riga 1856-1884 and the maker is JAL, Johann Andreas Leischke, apprenticed 1825-1829 to Johann Arved Eckström, still mentioned active 1873. V. Vilite, no. 229, p. 76, Latvijas Sudrabkali , Riga 1993; and A. Leistikow, p. 324, Baltisches Si...

Nice spoons Goldstein! Maker and Assay Master are as you indicate. It is also interesting to note that several captain's spoons for Mayer & Co made by other Estonian silversmiths and silversmiths from St. Petersburg are known. The merchant house Mayer & Co. was established in 1783 by Ernst A...

This is a surprise: after more than four years another spoon by Wulsten for J. F. Hein surfaces... I have nothing more to add to what I wrote in May 2013 about both Wulsten, as shown above. About J. F. Hein I can add that he is shown in the " Adressbuch der Kaufleute und Fabrikanten 1833 "...