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I might know a little bit about American silver, but I know cold beans about crests thereupon. This is on a fiddle thread platter spoon by Thomas Charles Fletcher c 1830. Given the joined shields and form, I'm thinking a wedding gift? Any ideas on its reality or meaning?

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As stated, George Wilhelm Marquardt was a retail jeweler in Iowa City and is so listed in census records and retail directories. There is little likelihood that he manufactured any goods, though he may have modified items to order in a small way. The spoons shown would have been purchased as marked ...

If it is N•C, then you could try Nathaniel Coleman. His was a silversmith based in Burlington, New Jersey, from around 1790 through to the mid 1830s, and his mark was very similar to the one on your spoons.

There are some examples of his marks on this Roots Web reference to Nathaniel Coleman ...

"Wilmot" was the retailer of the piece, not the manufacturer. There were numerous of that name working as jewelers and fancy goods merchants along the eastern seaboard at the turn of the 19th century and in to the 20th. Given the lettering of both marks, I would say the 1920s was likely.

Possibly Charles H. Miller of Wallingford CT, who worked as a jeweler and engraver c 1880.

Pictures of full spoon, both sides, please

mid 19th century by form. Canadian would be likely

Common wholesale marks of Hall, Hewson & Brower, Albany c 1850. "Concord" was likely some owner's family name.

Richard C. Akerly (1810-1895), longtime jeweler and watchmaker in Chicago and NYC. R. C. AKERLY & Co with James W. Robertson and Franklin Horton, 1850-1854 at 150 Bowery and, by 1853, 41 Fulton Street.

Arthur George Stone, Montpelier VT 1873-1910

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In addition to his own retail operations, Cole was a major supplier of wholesale silver goods pretty much across the country. This is one of several wholesale marks his factory used. Without a countermark, there is no way of telling who might retailed the piece.

Albert Coles

Retailed by Thomas W. Purdy, Newburgh NY c 1860; manufactured (wholesale) by John L. Westervelt

Isaac Henry Weston, jeweler in Portland ME c 1860

I have seen the mark with and without wholesale marks. Winterthur has several pieces such.

Sunderlin (Lewis) & Weaver (Devalson), Rochester c 1865

I have gone through the Myers book and found no matching initials. From known owners, the initial order appears two ways:
M(ary) over R(obert) • L(ivngston) -- given/given/surname
and
M(oses) over I(saac) • R(eyna) -- surname/given/given

Here is my example, also with untraced initials. It measures ...

More than likely; standard shop wares of the period. There are various tests available to be conclusive, but would probably cost more than the spoon is worth.

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