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Hi All any help appreciated, bought this very hand wright spoon that looks like it's stirred a good few gravies in its life, thinking the marks might be for Cape silversmith Daniel Collinet (1810-1825). But a closer examination of the marks in Weltz leaves me not entirely convinced. Marked DC (or po...

Hi Trev - and many thanks for the additional info

Hi David A great looking cup - thanks for posting. I can't really shed that much light on John Townsend, but looking at Weltz, who only lists known addresses and years associated with Townsend, he may well have been more on the manufacturing side. He is only noted as being in the business for 17 yea...

Thanks Trev - Thanks for confirmation and as always appreciate the info
Regards Frank

PS An unusual name, curious about pronunciation - ayeton? eyeton? aytown?

Hi All - any thoughts appreciated. A card case measuring 8cm by 4.5cm with detachable lid marked only WH and 90. I am confident the metal is silver and not silver plate. Looking at the forum's Chinese export section I see the same marks only with a third mark with Chinese characters for Wang Hing an...

Hi All Here are two pairs of heavy fiddle pattern tongs (14 and 15cm) by Cape silversmith Frederik Waldek. Both with the same marks, in what has been called the Cape stub. It was believed the stub and associated fly press was imported by Lawrence Twentyman and used by a number of Cape silversmiths, ...

Hi - Here a lovely mustard spoon (12.5cm) in the fiddle pattern with gilt washed bowl by Cape silversmith John Townsend. Not much is known of him besides her was trading as a silversmith from 1824 to 1841. This is mark 123 in Weltz, which has the same fouled punch on the maker's mark. - regards Fran...

Hi All I was lucky to find a few pieces of Cape silver recently and thought I would post in case anyone was interested in the marks. This a rather well used teaspoon by Daniel Beets. Beets was the illegitimate son of Balthus Wilhelm Beets of Neubrandenburg and Angana of the Cape. He married Anna Bed...

Hi All - Would appreciate any further input on this large silver basting spoon - 37cm long- in the Hannoverian pattern with some very worn marks. There is an engraving A above Mk (I think) and the year 1737. The maker's mark is clear WA in a wavy edged cartouche. The second mark could be anything. T...

Hi Georgian silver - many thanks for the info. Richard Redrick not listed in my copy of Jacksons, the only London smiths there for the period are Robert Rogers and Richard Rugg and neither's marks are remotely similar. Maybe Mr Redrick is a lost register project.But looking at Richardson's marks - t...

Thanks David - well, there's one on its way to you - hopefully sometime soon.
Regards Frank

Hi Trev
This spoon has the same mermaid crest as your salt spoon (I think) in another forum.
Regards Frank

Hi guys I'm not clued up on this but why are my private messages stuck in the out box and not showing up as sent - I've tried everything I can see to get them on their way including resending and all that happens is they come back to me in my in box. And I don't want to seem rude in not replying to ...

Hi David Many thanks for the info - would love the spoons as well, but am sure they'll be quite a search. These actually came with a George IV London dessert spoon and fork, but in a different variant of the kings pattern, with a small shell on the reverse. And some number of plated pieces from Will...

Many thanks OEL.
It's great to have my first pieces of 18th century Dutch silver. And to think these probably came to the Cape before the British arrived.
Now that you point it out, the crowned lion rampant is obvious.
Appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
Regards Frank

Snap - we have the same spoons - many thanks Trev - and for the info on the lions passant of Newcastle - Thanks Frank

Many thanks Trev - appreciate the super speedy response - great pic of Mr Helweg - and quote a long working period.
Would The capital A be for 1835 presumably or could these be 18th century pre Napoleonic marking spoons?
Thanks Frank

Hi All Any help with the makers mark on these two George II tablespoons appreciated. The only mark that's readable is the maker's mark RH in script and the only mark that bears a resemblance in my copy of Jacksons is that of Robert Harrison of Dublin from a mark Jackson notes on a 1722 gravy spoon. ...

Hi All I have this charming old English teaspoon with only Lion passant, duty mark and M.A. The lion passant does not look like a London one of the period, and the only maker I can trace in my copy of Jacksons that's right for the period is Mary Ashworth of Durham - one small problem - I am fairly s...

Hi I thought I would like to post these table forks showing the marks of prolific Cape silversmith Lawrence Twentyman - Weltz 135. And unusually in the kings pattern. Of course the question I suspect really is whether he made them or imported them from one of the bigger concerns in London or Sheffie...