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I'm not to sure about this, but maybe it's Joseph Seymour whose mark is shown on this site in this link: http://www.925-1000.com/americansilver_S.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Also, that mark might clean up some. I'm not sure if it's truly adviseable, but for myself, I use soap...

It's a pretty safe bet that this is silverplate. If it doesn't say sterling, it's not sterling works pretty good with twentieth century American silver.

Also, to me, that looks like a carafe. An attractive set nonetheless.

Fantastic! The quality of the work on this site to me and no doubt for others is overwhelming.
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It has been suggested that the initials on this knife blade may be W O Co.
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This not an real help, but the letters strike me as W G Co or M G Co, and the knife is not American. Are there any marks on the ferrule which is often sterling on these mother of pearl handled items?
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George Lindner was born in Germany in about 1797. He was still an active silversmith in Philadelphia in 1870 and paid taxes on his business throughout the American Civil War.
George's son Herman was also a Philadelphia silversmith and is listed as such from 1850 until at least 1880.
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It maybe worth mentioning that Newell Harding & Co silversmiths continued to be listed in Boston directories at various addresses until 1889. The final address for the company was 297 Washington, and it is listed in the The Boston Directory No LXXXV for the year commencing July 1, 1889, Boston: ...

About pseudo marks, from my own limited experience, there is no one right answer to your question, but here is an entry on this site that sums them up very well:

http://www.925-1000.com/silverglossary4.html
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Actually, I do find specific Longworth New York City Directory mention of the jeweler William W White at 98(sp?) Bowery in 1828 and again at 68 Bowery in 1838. He's looking even better.
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This is by no means a positive attribution, but if the spoon were mine, William W White who was born in about 1800 in Virginia and worked mid nineteenth century in New York, New York as a jeweler and watchmaker would be at the top of my list for a likely retailer. He was at 68 Bowery from the late 1...

Can't say this is necessarily the same firm, but it has potential: Listed on the NAWCC Information Storage Site under the heading Private Label Name/Jeweler/Jobber in 1880 for Rockford Watch Co, Illinois, Reed & Swinford, Paris, Ill. Jefferson H Reed and Riley Swinford are listed as jewelers in ...

William Walker Jr is listed in the 1850 Attleborough, Massachusetts census with the occupations mason and jeweller.
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Well it's a starting place at best and better than nowhere at all. I have to guess your piece could be New Orleans because it's marked brothers and not & brother. Going by their age at that time, no more than mid twenties, these brothers weren't in New Orleans too many years. I lean toward retai...

1851 Lowell Directory...by George Adams.

Note the request for choice pieces of silver that can be made into spoons, and be sure of having the same silver again.

Benjamin N Trees, jeweler, is listed in the 1937 at 222 E Main, Lex, Ky Polk Directory.Listed as Lexington Gold refining Co in 1941 to '47 at the same address. There is a record of a border crossing from Canada with this gentleman's name that may fit and explain his abscence from earlier directories...

Great information; I've read and forgotten at least some of it. It's helpful to have it altogether on one particular piece. I've found that pattern coast to coast in the U S.

This is not guaranteed, but in my own experience with these sets, and likewise for others that I have observed, carving sets have been typical bridal gifts. The manufacturer is not necessarily marked and the patterns are even more remote. You may someday by chance come across an advertisement for th...

Trev,

Some tremendous graphics there. Just great stuff. Thank you.

Pat
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Sorry I forgot to paste the reference. http://www.925-1000.com/silverplate_D.html

Your images look like they're probably going to need resizing. Take a look at this reference that is on this site.

In general when you say boat, Helsinki is the first thing that comes to mind for me. Maybe that is what you were thinking of, but it's not that in this case.