www.925-1000.com

Thanks everyone. Mystery solved!

Thanks Trev. I have hundreds of books relating to silver and hallmark, but none of them helped. A huge gap in my library is a book about Italian marks. My thanks to you and Blakstone for solving the mystery. My quest now is to get a book about Italian marks!

Best wishes.

Paul.

This 11"/ 28cm candlestick has got me baffled. It has a fluted column and mounted decorations of fruit, flowers and shells. The two small marks on it appear to be a lady with a skinny neck facing right, next to a group of symbols and a rubbed mark of the letters “ I S ?” with another letter possibly ...

At 5" long it would serve a rather small portion of soup.

This is a silver plated piece by Thomas Turner & Co, Sheffield. It is 5" long with straining holes to the rear of the bowl and a pouring lip to the front. Any ideas?

This is the mark on a pair of knife rests. They feel like they are silver plated, but the number 13 and the style of the “LH” initials make me feel that they are from somewhere around the Baltic.

Any thoughts?

Paul.
https://i.postimg.cc/G8DcH0cq/DSC05759.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/VSpffscJ ...

Hello Trev.

I did a bit more hunting around and found this obscure piece of research:

Close plating: A Black Country silver plating process
Reg Morton and Michael Hallett
This paper is mainly the result of work done by Reg
Morton and his colleagues and was given to Michael
Hallett for completion ...

A question has arisen recently about the base metals used in close plating. Does anyone know of any instances of close plating on copper? Opinions welcomed.

Paul

This is a bit of a long shot but does anyone recognise this crest. It is on a silver knife by Greychev Bros. St. Petersburg c1900. The Cyrillic inscription translates to "Russian Fleet

Paul.

Here is a strange thing which I came across recently. This is a "Glug Glug" decanter. So called because of the glugging sound it makes when being filled or emptied. It has nice set of Hukin & Heath marks for Birmingham 1928. It also has a set of Dublin import marks, also for Hukin & Heath 1928 ...

I am putting this in Provincial and Colonial because I am having fruitless searches elsewhere. This is nice little dognose teaspoon with the maker’s mark of IH or HI with a drop pellet between the letters. I have search through Grimwade, Chaffers and Jackson without success, to find the maker. I ...

dognose wrote: Tue Mar 28, 2023 1:49 pm I find nothing in my American, Canadian or Indian references.

Trev.

Nothing in any of my books. Cape, Canada or Chinese export. I have been through Bermuda, Scotland and Australia plus all manner of other places 00without success.

It should be entitled "Fiddle Teaspoon" of course!

This is just an ordinary fiddle teaspoon, but the origin is proving elusive. Any ideas?

Being of sugar nip size I think that they are for individual use.

I have been reliably informed that they are watercress Tongs. Apparently watercress became hugely fashionable and popular in the early 1800s.

This is a bit of an oddity. It is 5 inches in length with a spring action. It has one arm with head with four flat ended tines and the other head with a spade like feature. It is not bowled like a spoon but just a flattened curve. It has a Sheffield hallmark for 1820.

The immediate thought is ...

Try “Bermuda’s Antique Furniture & Silver” by Bryden Bordley Hyde
Published by Bermuda National Trust, 1971.

Good Luck!

Paul.

Hello Trev.
What a challenge! I was hoping that there would be a nice convenient record somewhere. I have all sorts of pieces with "date letters" but it is almost impossible to date them accurately. Presentaion engravings help in some cases, but htere is nothing to say that the engraved pieces were ...

paulh wrote:Does anyone know if any records of silver plate
date letters for manufacturers such as Mappin and Webb, Martin, Hall & Co and James Dixon?

I have date letters for Walker and Hall and Elkington, but would like to find others.