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G -- some wholesale manufacturer, Gorham perhaps
925/1000 -- sterling grade silver. The word "Sterling" was not required until after 1907.

The maker is likely John Tanner of Newport RI. Winterthur has a number of similar spoons with the IT mark as here.

Graham's book should be approached with a good pinch of salt at the ready.

Yes

That said, no one in 1650 was using a typeface as shown in either mark, to say nothing of the Federal Eagle, so it is likely a fantasy piece.

Did I mention that I dislike the editing and post controls of this forum? Dreadful.

Impossible to tell without seeing the spoon. There was a somewhat disreputable 17c Salem/Boston MA pewtersmith named Robert Graves. He is known to have worked for several decades, but nothing of his work is known to have survived. That said, no one in 1650 was using a typeface as shown in either mar...

Waylander wrote:not even on the excellent site run by Wm Voss)

Thank you. He is now been added by way of his wife's line.

Edward Simmons is listed in the 1850 census at Lockport NY as a silversmith, age 35. Samuel Dunfee, age 21, and Levit Boker, age 16, are also listed as silversmiths in his household. Dunfee was likely a journeyman and Baker an apprentice.

It is a journeyman's mark associated with Joseph Seymour's wholesale manufacturing firm.

Benjamin & Samuel Demilt, 1820-1835, New York City

I have seen this mark at least half a dozen times on flatware c 1830 or so. I have never found any commonality of locale nor any further information on a possible maker/retailer. The person with the "Texas" tongs could offer no justification for that assumption (except, perhaps, rarity of ...

I am sorry, I thought that was presumed. The pseudo marks are not attributed, but have been found on typical pieces also marked by several NYC retailers c 1840-1850

1. Retailers 2. The wholesale marks are tentatively attributed to Nelson Haight of Newburgh NY by McGrew, but I think that unlikely. While a successful jeweler and watchmaker (as were five of his sons), there is nothing that I have seen to indicate the sort of large scale silver manufacturing that w...

German/Danish/Dutch would have been my first guess. The shoulders are very atypical for an American spoon, as are the general proportions and bowl shape.

I suspected as much. By the time of Mood's partnership, shell, thead, and shell/thread patterns were all well-established and had been for close to two decades.

Aguest wrote:The Fiddle Shell was invented by Peter Mood, and was the first decorative applied motif on American Coin Silver, does this make sense?

I will need some very strong documentation to accept that statement.

The second is William at the end of his career; the first is his son, Prisca Levan Mannerback

It has been fairly well established that this is the wholesale mark of John S. Putnam, working in Buffalo c 1835-1848. The center mark is a grazing buffalo.

These marks (the lion/leopard) are the marks of an unidentified New York wholesale manufacturer c 1835-1860. It is found with the shop mark of a number of retailers in New York and New Jersey. They are most likely coin silver.