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A P.S. If the inscription transliterates as something like Letorud it might be something to do with flight instruments but I am guessing here.

This seems to be from the Soviet Union. The marking on the back translates as "rustfree", i.e stainless steel, then what I assume is the factory mark and then the fixed price of 40 kopeks - it was a Soviet practice to mark with a fixed price like this. I'm afraid I can't read the Cyrillic ...

Bright cut Old English is a style that only appears in the later 18th century, so not 1739. A spoon of that date would have a Hanoverian stem and a different bowl shape.

It looks to me as if the two beakers are a set where one fits indie the other for stowage which would account for a pair turning up. However I am not competent to comment on the marks.

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Some research on the Kandlers was published in the Silver Society Journal number8. My copies don't go back that far, but I mention it in case anybody else has a copy or wishes to order one from the Society if it is still available.

I think Trev is right about the date. I should have been explicit that these are London marks and that I am sure the terminal is a later embellishment.

Interesting. My hasty first thoughts are as follows. The maker’s mark appears to be ID with a sexfoil above and a crescent below, recorded in Jackson for an unidentified maker on a combined spoon and fork of 1690-91. The shape of the spoon (apart from the terminal) and the lion passant and leopard’s...

I read the mark as STERLING which would not be found on an 18th century item but is used in the 20th century and since.

However, the style of the handle is not in keeping with the 1740s/1750s. More late 18th or early 19th century. Difficult to judge on the basis of a broken and worn relic, but it looks provincial or colonial to me. If it is English, I cant help with a confident identification of ER. I wonder from the...

You're very welcome to use my garden for the interment.

I'm not sure that further research is likely to turn up much in the way of useful information. You may have to accept that you have a rare and possibly unique survivor. To me, that would make it all the more desirable. As for the original use, without evidence from the period, I would say it is anyb...

I can't say what was kept in it, but it looks to me very much as if there was originally a glass or ceramic centre insert which got broken. The silver insert will have been made as a replacement.

Fairbairn lists about 50 families using this crest so I'm afraid doesn't help much in identifying the original owner of this piece.

Sorry. In haste missed out the lion passant for sterling silver.

From left to right: maker's mark (I'm afraid I don't know whose), Rose for Shefield, date letter for 1977 and Queen's head because 1977 was her Silver Jubilee year. A small silver bar for use as a pendant with the hallmarks as decoration.

They are both reproductions of late 17th century spoon shapes, known as Trefids because of the three-lobed stem end. Those with die-struck decoration in the style of your spoons are known as Laceback Trefids. The earliest known English Trefid dates from 1662. I think "laceback" decoration ...

This punch is not the sponsor’s mark that would need to be struck on silver before assay and the addition of hallmarks proper, of course. It is more akin to a retailer's mark. Punches like this could have been held in the workshops of makers to whom Garrard outsourced manufacture as well as by Garra...

The photo of the marks is not too sharp, but if the lettering in the clover shape reads W&W it will be the mark of the silversmith firm Wakeley and Wheeler who are still in business. I think the date letter is probably actually the i for 1964. I assume it is a pretty small item which I would thi...

My pleasure. You might find this link of interest: http://www.ascasonline.org/articoloSETTEM117.html

David