can someone help me with this 3 spoons, most probably made in china? Were the spoons only made for tourists (souvenir spoons), or is this type usual in china too?
Hello, I would be glad, if someone can help me to date this type of spoon and, if possible, to identify the mark. I think, that other spoons of this type I have seen before are made in Flensburg, northern Germany, made end of the 19th century. But I am not sure. Kind regard, Ringo http://i42.tinypic...
Hello, could it be a late Augsburg-mark? Today I looked in the book from HELMUT SELING, and there is a "FCS" mark, wich looks very similar to this mark (Seling No. 2738). The mark is from Franz Carl Schmedding (1805-1872). The Date-letter "R" was used 1856. Kind regards, Ringo
Hello, I have a Milk Jug and a sugar bowl (I do not know the right translation for this objects in english) from the 19th century, probably made in Schleswig-Holstein. The objects are marked with "J Boysen" in cursive letters. This mark is not in the book from B. Zeitzschel, but there is a...
Hello Theoderich,
I thank you very much.
The spoon looks like made about or a little after 1800 and if the date-letter is really an "G", Johann Carl Franz August Sonnabendt was quite young.
Hello, I have a question about the distribution area of this type of late- or post-trefid (pied-de-biche) spoon. Unfortunately there is no city mark. In the western Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany, this type of spoon was common in the middle and second half of the 18th century. If the spoon was...
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can someone help me with this Berlin mark? The date letter in the city mark is most probably an G. The makers initials looks like IFS or IHS.
I would be glad, if someone can help me.
Hello dognose, it is the city mark of Glückstadt in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany The figure in the mark is Fortuna. Strüven is Johann Strüven, birthdate is unknown. Since 1842 he learnd in Hamburg and since 1850 he worked in Glückstadt (Hubert Stierling, Goldschmiedezeichen von Altona bi...
Hello, can someone help me with this mark? I know nothing about american silversmiths, but I have read in this forum, that "J.E. CALDWELL & Co" is a retailer mark. But who is the maker? The spoon seems to be remarked. Beneath the Caldwell mark are relics of an older mark to see. Kind r...