www.925-1000.com

Try an internet search for "fourchettes à melon argent" and see what turns up - can probably dig up some catalog images when I have time...

~Cheryl

Looks like a melon fork to me...

~Cheryl

Thanks again!

~Cheryl

Thanks, Trev! Early 19th century?

~Cheryl

My eyesight is so bad anymore, can't make much sense out of the marks, which appear to be the same struck thrice, so I turned four pics four directions - any ideas? Thanks so much... ~Cheryl https://i.postimg.cc/W45VHVrw/toddyladlebaleen-1.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/rwcK68dB/toddyladlebaleen-2.jpg htt...

Durgin's 'Fairfax' pattern, introduced in 1910, continued in production by Gorham...

https://www.925-1000.com/ax_durgin.html

~Cheryl

Workmanship and marks are typical of modern Turkish silver...

~Cheryl

I've been using postimage.org for quite a while now, on my Android phone, laptop and desktop - I'm not registered, simply open the site, click on 'Choose image', my files are pulled up, click on my picture, after it uploads, scroll down to 'Hotlink for forums', click on the blue 'copy/clipboard' ico...

Find a Friedrich Christopher Zwanzig (1822-1889) in Schleswig, as well as his son Friedrich Christoph Zwanzig (b.1857)...

(Thank you Theo)

~Cheryl

To my eye, looks like 'F.C.ZWANZIG'

~Cheryl

Hi ~ welcome to the forums.

Nothing to do with Martelé (as a note, Martelé was .950 fineness).

It is a fairly rare hand-crafted piece associated with Gorham's very uncommon 1880s 'Hamburg' flatware pattern - it is a really, really nice item...

~Cheryl

Very likely the other found was a baby spoon too, do know that Baker-Manchester, Kirk, and Weidlich (those are the three that come to mind, right off) all used regular line patterns and looped their handles toward the front, though Weidlich usually used a roundish bowl, while Baker-Manchester and Ki...

Have seen this a number of times - someone straightened out a loop handled baby spoon, it should be curved around to show the pattern on the same side as the bowl...

~Cheryl

Personally would have trouble attributing this mark, or for that matter, the (925/1000) [Evon only shows the (925/000) variant of the mark in her book] to a Marshall Field wholesale workshop, especially since she notes that the workshops didn't actually open untill 1903 and pieces found with the (92...

It's 'W,REED & E.BARTON' - Edward Barton, son of Charles Barton of Reed & Barton, and his brother-in-law, Waldo Reed (apparently no family connection to Henry Reed), formed 'Reed, Barton & Co.' in 1886; both firms were based in Taunton, MA. There were legal issues, but eventually, Reed &...

Please see this post regarding this mark: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=54106


~Cheryl

Please see this post regarding this mark: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=54106


~Cheryl

Please see this post regarding this mark: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=54106


~Cheryl

Please see this post regarding this mark: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=54106


~Cheryl

Believe it's been pretty well identified as Greek, but an answer to a post in a general forum on a non-silver item bearing this mark brought an immediate response of "sold in the Benaki Museum shop in Athens, Greece". Dug up four posts here on the mark, found all four items in question in ...