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What I see is gilt worn off to reveal silver on the heel, the sides of the shoulders, the lip of the bowl, the edges of the stem, and worn completely off the handle, all areas of expected wear - if silverplate on brass, would expect to see the reverse, Personally, wouldn't worry about the gilding re...

Carpenter's 'Gorham Silver, 1831-1981' (1982) states that Gorham didn't produce silverplate until 1865, noting they spent two years developing their process, with early pieces of very high quality. They did sell 'Plated Wares' in their earlier salesrooms, but those goods were not their production (t...

Though Gorham coin spoons bearing that simple serifed-font 'GORHAM & CO' mark usually bear a 'COIN' or 'PURE COIN' stamp as well, it's not an absolute, can't see any reason your mustard spoon wouldn't be silver (guessing the 'X' perhaps a tally mark) - 'Gorham & Company' was the firm's name ...

I am quite sure. It's a silverplate pattern called 'Old English' introduced in the early 20th century, not very common (likely an unpopular pattern), but every piece I've seen bore the same somewhat eccentric sans-serif 'GORHAM CO' mark, including the anchor, as on your fork - Gorham would have no r...

Hi - welcome to the forums. Nice job on your first post...


Your fork is silverplate, as indicated by the anchor alone trademark - below is an 1869 Gorham advertisement:





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Hi - welcome to the forums.

It's Danish - Hans Jensen for Hejl & Co., with the silverplate 'torchmark'.

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Welcome to the forums. Nice job on your first post!

They are Andean shawl pins called tupu (topu), most likely Bolivian or Peruvian - probably silver, larger and more nicely made than some, would guess from the late 19th century into perhaps the mid 20th...

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Suspect this is 19th century Chinese Export, Wong Shing/Wong Hsing of Canton is noted as using a set of pseudo-marks including both a 'T' and 'W' - moving this to the Far East forum for other eyes...

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The tongs in the initial post are Blackinton's 'French Colonial' pattern, introduced in the 1940s, the common serifed font 'STERLING' is typical of Blackinton, as is the form of the tongs' claws, found on other Blackinton pattern tongs of the same period. Omitting the manufacturer's trademark isn't ...

Barbour Silver Co.

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Cohr's 'Frederik the 8th' pattern, also produced by Fredericia Sølv (Fredericia Sølvindustri), but your spoons predate their founding.

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Moved to 'German' forum...

So Robert Sutton from New Haven is about the only Sutton who worked in silver that has turned up. I don't have a copy of "Marks of American Silversmiths in the Ineson-Bissell Collection", I wonder if anyone reading this has one? That's usually the most comprehensive listing of hallmarks. ...

One of the variants of the multi-motif 'Meadow' pattern...

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Thank you for posting your results.

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The pattern of the majority is Wilcox & Evertsen/International Silver's 'Beverly', introduced in 1910, the seafood forks appear to be the same maker's 'Lady Betty' pattern, introduced in 1920 - but your image is so fuzzy, hard to tell...

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Thanks for looking, Trev. My thoughts are the same, and wonder what it might have been used for way back when - it holds a half-teaspoon (2.5 ml) to the rim, a bit of kitchen experimentation revealed nothing thicker than good olive oil poured out effectively... Since it's still here in the 'London' ...

Quick search at the V&A site doesn't find the pieces below, but does show mid 18th century condiment spoons/ladles of similar scale, along with condiment vases... From Ian Pickford's 'Silver Flatware, English, Irish and Scottish 1660-1980' (1983): https://i.postimg.cc/Y91prNxf/condiment-spoons-p...

I've had this very small Onslow pattern spouted ladle for a while now, it measures 9.1 cm long, the bowl 2.6 cm X 3.2 cm, 1 cm deep, and weighs 8 grams, it's nicely made, and even though it's so tiny, there are faint signs of the terminal being soldered on with a scarf joint. I've poked around for s...

These rather poorly cast 'RJK' salt spoons (there's also an 'Alice in Wonderland' thimble of even lesser quality) have been showing up recently, and despite some sales descriptions as 'rare' and 'antique', they're neither. The majority of these are found from the same seller on two venues (with diff...