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The HA mark resembles a Switzerland Silversmith stylistically ::: I really get a Swiss feeling rather than an English feeling but if you ever find a way to photograph and enhance that one hallmark(?) that is near the hinge, it might change everything. ::::::: " Pierre-Henri Dautun (1729-1803). ...

I know I have the maker, but the last hallmark in the series seems to be one of the notorious "Court Series Letters" and 1699 or 1700 is my best guess. I have more pics I could e-mail to an expert (if anyone cares to review them), but really the same conclusion would be reached, it is Will...

I am seeing a small cup for auction with a "76+Kokoshnik" mark where the number 76 is incorporated into a Kokoshnik-style hallmark, the seller claims it is of Armenian origin, the handle of the cup and the bottom of the cup are marked as well. ::::::: Is it possible that the number 76 has ...

Check the backs of the handles and bowls, do you see any tiny symbols? Those might be a clue to the country of origin. My first guess would be Italy, sometimes they are unmarked silver spoons brought back to America when tourists would do "The Grand Tour" of Europe, and Italy was a popular...

I believe I see the two hallmarks for Britannia Standard, so perhaps William Fleming just wanted to make an older style using the new standard of Britannia Silver, that's one possible theory, all I know is that I have not ever seen this particular form made by William Fleming, but I am still researc...

We might be solving a mystery here: "Heal records him as plateworker, Blackwell Lane Court, Cripplegate without, 1692-7 (the first date is curious as by then he could have only served four years of his apprenticeship); also in Gutter Lane, 1712; and Maiden Lane 1714 and 1727. His mark is freque...

What I mean is, all the caudle cups and Porringers made by William Fleming are in the "Queen Anne" style, while this example is in the "James II" style when wild leaves rustling shrubbery were themes of the caudle cups and porringers, this period lasted 1680-1690, approximately, ...

William Fleming is seriously the maker, I really believe I figured it out, but this form seems to be very early for his work (pre-1697 It seems to be). ::

Norwich Assay Office, apologies to the error, I'm doing the best I can here. :::

If it isn't London, is there a remote possibility that it could be East Anglican? Norfolk Assay Office Hallmarks?

Edward Hulse is the closest I can figure for the fragmentary makers mark with a crown above. :: He is a noted spoon maker, not a candle cup or porringer maker, but I did find a spoon which might be a tentative attribution ::::

I tried to enlarge that pic repeatedly but to no avail ::: It would help to see that pic enlarged, there seem to be 3 or 4 struck marks all in a row. :: I've focused on London, which is where I have seen this form circa 1675, but I can't make any progress, the fragments of hallmarks don't match up t...

Attempting to pic:

Is it true that the Eagle's head was required to be struck in French jewelry containing gold parts? Therefore, if any part of this had a gold content (for inastance, maybe the pin mechanism is made of 9K gold?) the Eagle Head would have to have been struck on all the parts of the jewelry? :::::: (Ho...

Should not the handle be hallmarked since law required each separate piece of a silver object to be fully hallmarked? :::
The handle must have originally been a separate piece which was then joined to the shaft of the scooping part? :::

So the books of these Rd numbers (Registry Numbers) still exist, I believe this is correct, so if you really needed more knowledge about the Dongor Medallion (and, honestly, I'm not sure I can sleep until I've found the original Registry Number Application for THE DONGOR MEDALLION), you could actual...

::::: The asparagus server cost almost as much as the large soup ladle? :::::
:::::::::::::::::::: I find that puzzling. :::::::::::::::::::::::