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Bump. Note this post regarding 980 Jerusalem with additional Jordan marking: https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=20369&p=47187&hilit=spoon+980&sid=acbc76967cfaf71658b50f40f2bc8967#p47187 In addition I have the remains of a souvenir type spoon (top half of handle is go...

A transcribed obit dating 1885 for Joseph Stephens claiming he went to work for Phillips in 1810, thence replacing his employer upon his death (??!!), and only entering his next venture in about 1835: https://kentuckykindredgenealogy.com/20 ... -obituary/

Story continues with new sample inquiry: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=60448&p=201978&sid=aadef4d6243952a8427de7eaa1fa4e86#p201978

Answer to earlier question....AMERICAN COIN (by definition approximating 0.900 fine silver alloy). Silverplate unlikely as no researcher has ever indicated these marks connect to anything of base-metal coated nor pewter. Conjecture part...Phillips can be linked to Presbyterians. Stephens family is u...

Sketches of Paris (1876) reveals a connection of the Presbyterian Church in Runnels Mills with that of Paris from the 1790's into the early 1800's. Also one Thomas Phillips is accounted for on the local firefighting squad in 1810. Entire book available on the internet archives: https://archive.org/d...

A long examination relating to Thomas Phillips (and partners) and some of the where & when [a lot of it further in]: https://southernfoodandmaterialculture. ... r.html?m=1

If you follow the trail in links, Joseph Stephens (#29) was around 21 years old when he moved to Paris and built a house. He reportedly opened a short lived Jewelry business, but that leaves a big unexplained gap between his arrival and the dates of c. 1827-32 cited for the mark. There is no mention...

The entry following Bahner's adjusted the information a bit. Just for surviving photo reference, a sample of the short lived earlier Austrian Export Mark (Mercury cap/Caduceus) is imaged here: viewtopic.php?f=38&t=35107&p=121793&hilit=export#p121793

It was a response to an inquiry labeled "Cigarette Case", so here is the link: viewtopic.php?f=24&t=39081&p=107578&hilit=austrian+export+mark&sid=3c33328ee7931071d859daf51bfda49e#p107578

Page 8 link: viewtopic.php?f=38&t=35107&p=199975&hilit=austro+hungarian+information&sid=67eba640df0be28162527cf9d6856cf9#p199975

Somewhat doubtful that it could be an American mark, but, R/F 4th indicates one John Burgess (with no known mark) plating in Baltimore in 1864, related to Caleb H. Burgess (no mark) with both together from 1865-1883, then Caleb alone 1884-89. Here's an 1880's electrical source directory listing Amer...

If you follow the linked chain of pseudo-marks, like a mixture of fingerprint sets from one person, Trev is suggesting that this may have previously been an incorrect attribution for your mark to the Continental (Sheffield) Silver Company which should have more appropriately gone to the Crown Silver...

Oh boy, are you in for it now! Hope you enjoy reading this search for the true identity of the silverplate maker Continental Sheffield: viewtopic.php?f=38&t=41910&hilit=continental+sheffield

The BBC couldn't come up with a mystery plot this convoluted.

Some on him as pewterer (exhibition related material): https://exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/w/hewill1497.html If Thorn was right, no mark was readily available as of 1949, but someone found a reference before that pinning the name to silver. Perhaps within Henry Wills' "Accounts"...

Rainwater/Redfield (4th) has this form of mark down for Smith & Smith of Attleboro Mass., later part of Wallace Silversmiths. Sterling cigar boxes and novelties were known products. Do you have measurements?

Thorn's Silver & Pewter (1949):

Many thanks for the solution Cheryl!

Salina Coffee House (Salina Kansas) was started circa 1947 as an equipment and furnishings provisioner in commercial sector, eventually evolving into the full line supplier Sunflower Restaurant Supply. It could be a possible branding name, but the date seems late as much of this product was moving i...

This makes two of these well-worn Windsor style soda/ice tea spoons surfacing on opposite coasts (the other is a current listing) bearing this unidentified mark and no more. There's a Salina Street in Syracuse where some jewelry firms were located, and the town of Salina Kansas. The City of Salina w...

Biographies under Johnson, Merle M. (JC has him as firm manager on buying trip to NY) states "manufacturing jewelers". (Also notes business as H. F. Wichman & Co. when he enters field, but as H. F. Wichman & Co., Ltd. at the later era. Probably would not affect the marks on metals ...