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Johonnot & Smith, c 1815 in Windsor VT.

George A. Harmon was a watchmaker and jeweler in Portland ME c 1870

From The Missouri State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1860; Freeman A. Durgin and Thomas H. Burtt.

By family tradition, he was sent to Philadelphia by his father Simon (Simeon) to learn the clock making trade. He returned some time later to Cane Creek and established a small clock and watch shop. It is not known (outside the family history) that he worked in silver in any formal manner. He has no...

Since the piece in question is in an ongoing auction (offered by the OP, I presume), I will refrain from answering.

You have a much better chance of dying in a car accident on the way to work then getting ill from eating raw oysters -- presuming, of course, that you have a basic understanding of the goods and their season.

The oysters would have been half shucked -- the top shell prised open, but the meat left attached to the lower shell. The oyster might be left plain, sauced, or just dressed with a bit of lemon juice and served on a bed of ice and sea weed.

Oysters

Ran across these sorting out a box of odds and ends http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~silversmiths/SalonImages/tongs/tongs2.jpg The marks are quite clear and there's a date letter, which appears to be a lower case i. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~silversmiths/Salo...

The mark is too poor in quality for any use -- I should never have put it up and have now removed it.
Good images are always welcome and appreciated.

The Huntington shown (from my site) is quite dreadful, but the best I had found. Here is a somewhat better version, recently added, which matches that shown in Flynt & Fales, Hammerslough, etc. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~silversmiths/SalonImages/HuntingtonPhilip.jpg Here i...

Likely Philip Huntington. Currier should be used with a goodly grain of salt and as a last resort; it was written 74 years ago, the marks were rather crudely drawn, and the attributions published without independent verification.

A better picture of the piece

No. Simply being a jeweler has no bearing on the subject.

Meriden Britannia silverplate (and not art deco -- just a badly conceived variation on American colonial)

It is just the design/identification number of the object.

It is now suspected that the mark is D. B. Hempstead & Co, based on pieces with a Georgia provenance.

I'm not sure how you decided that "few" were made. The 25 mentioned in the link are actually quite a large number, given the period (and is also too small a number: 32 are recorded in public collections alone). Kane's Massachusetts Silversmiths shows the known and vetted marks. It is also ...

Toronto Silver Plate Company; formed in 1882, sold to Wm Rogers Canada in 1914, defunct by 1929.