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Thank you all for your help in trying to decide the authenticity of this spoon. I believe the provenance to be very genuine since it has been in my wife's family for about 80 years minimum, so if it is a copy or fake presumably this would have been manufactured in Russia??
Regards to all

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Hi Juke & Zolotnik there is another item - cake/pastry server pictures included which may add to your debate or be off in another direction. This has Russian marks but cannot identify initials G E for maker.

Hi I was referring to Zolotnik's last post asking for more detail and asking about a dot or full stop between N and O in hallmark. This would appear to help pin down the maker as Ovchinnikov?

http://s1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee378/cookj392/ Hello Zolotnik, Piette, Dad, Qrt.S and Juke, Sorry took so long to reply to last posts. I have endeavoured to obtain some extra photos but my digi camera super macro is not brilliant. I have include full size, weight is approx 100gm and length 21....

Many thanks to everybody contributing to my question. I will get some better photos and post as soon as possible. A little family history remembered by my wife from her childhood days! The sea captain (James) reputedly supplied flax to the last Tsar. The family fled to Germany during the revolution ...

Ok thank you. I am new to this so please forgive me if I get it wrong sometimes

http://s1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee378/cookj392/ My wife inherited some russian silver pieces from her aunt who we believe married a white russian sea captain. I believe some of the marks indicate the imperial court silversmiths in Mosocw. The spoon is 21.5 cm long - too big for a soup spoon I t...