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While I could not find a Bird/Bat mark for Towle I did find onhttps://www.sterlingflatwarefashions.com/Patterns/Towle6.html it could be the 1880 "Tipped" flatware design....digging more into it.

The term of the patent you refer to was 3.5 years; so unless it was renewed, patent protection was not in place for long. I noticed that would mean Sep 29, 1894. The design is raised up not etched in. So it makes me wonder then if Shepard Mfg. Co. requested use of the design and got a stamp, die, o...

I have a Shepard Mfg. Co. Indiana souvenir spoon. It has a typical Shepard Mfg. Co. Souvenir spoon shape and floret detailing but interestingly seem to have the similar bowl and upper handle portion of patented USD21079S Bingham & Walk spoon design who manufactured out of Indiana. https://i.post...

I have this Yellowstone Park salt and Pepper shaker set marked Monroe Silver Co 453 in a fine/thin font. https://i.postimg.cc/w7M23sDF/Salt-Pepper-Monroe-Silver-Co-Set-4.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/vDQ3FKBJ/Salt-Pepper-Monroe-Silver-Co-Set-1.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/n9ck4XgF/Salt-Pepper-Monroe-Silver-C...

It looks like it could be Doran Sehongva Puhudawa Hopi

see https://www.art-amerindien.com/signatur ... ndiens.htm

I wonder if it could be H.W. Burdick Co. if it is indeed a B https://www.langantiques.com/university/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Burdick.png https://www.langantiques.com/university/mark/burdick-co-h-w/ https://books.google.com/books/content?id=6UEcAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA286&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&...

I talks about how they plate the ware to protect it from use Be it known that I, GEORGE HALE BRA- BROOK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Taunton, in the county of Bristol and Oomj wearing off of the film of silver-plating from those portions of such articles subject to the greatest wear....

I think this is the patent it is referring to

https://patents.google.com/patent/US606 ... y:18980601

There is a company that goes by Hitchcock Co. Inc., W.P. from New York about 1934 ish that may be the maker. I have not see many marks for them however, here is an example but it does not match yours. https://www.langantiques.com/university/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/hitchcock.png They were on 106 E...

here is the image imbeded (even took me a while to figure it out)

for ibb go to the botom of the page containing the photo and copy the BBCode for full image or thumbnail.

Do you have a photo of the mark on the back that may help identify era? This will help narrow down searching if anything is available.

Traintime I do see that but the patent shows 12-31-1895 as inventor Ernest W. Campbell assignor Howard & Edwards Silver Co. even thought Campbell-Metcalf Silver Co. was established 7-14-1894. What are other reasons they wouldn't patent it under the Campbell-Metcalf name? Was this their way of ma...

I have seen a few pieces like this marked "Homag 90 Pforzheim"

Pforzheim is a town in southwestern Germany. The town had a jewelry and watchmaking industry, which was established in 1767.

I am wondering if the pattern itself is called Homag rather than that being the actual maker.

I just ran across an interesting patent where the inventor is Ernest W. Campbell but instead of the assignor being Campbell-Metcalf Silver Co it is assigned to Holmes & Edward Silver Company. Bridgeport, CT & Providence, RI are only about 120 miles from one another so it does not seem entire...

A friend of mine mentioned another fairly sound idea for why this keeps popping up. Perhaps large companies (hotels, tours, etc.) in need of flatware came up with their own design and then ordered from multiple companies in the max stock allowed. I am wondering if all these companies accepted the or...

Hotel Del Monte was requisitioned by the Navy at the beginning of World War II and used as a pre-flight training school. I would imagine that had something to do with this basic design or perhaps just a basic kitchen tasting spoon marked so it was not stolen?

I think that threat theory may be very sound. I dug out some more of my flatware for the hotels and camps and came across 5 pickling forks. 4 are marked " Dohrco Gramercy" & 1 is marked "Victor S. Co. A1" followed by an I & S in boxes for International Silver Co. Victor S...

I have a Yellowstone Park spoon marked Regis Mfg. Co. but I can't seem to find anything about this manufacturing company. No patents, history, or location. https://i.postimg.cc/CZ721nJ3/Regis-Mfg-Co-1.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/JDh2B72G/Regis-Mfg-Co-2.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/WDTKTwmm/Regis-Mfg-Co-3.j...

The Argentor three triangles and AS look like ARGENTOR-WERKE RUST & HETZEL as for the owl I am not sure.

It looks like JOSEPH RODGERS & SONS or JOHN ROUND & SON it's hard to tell with the marks after S.