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Hello Hose, I have been able to find a little more information on P. B. Smit & Co of Riga. In the Swedish Newspaper Inrikes Tidningar of 14 October 1813 there is an announcement in German by C. Hollander (some kind of magistrate) advising creditors of P. B. Smit & Co. that they have until 21...

Hello,
Please look at
http://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/Make ... ter-E.html
halfway down the page, under EF. The mark looks very similar to the one on your item. If it is that, it is the mark of E. F. Braham Ltd. of Birmingham, registered October 1894.
Best regards.

This is a very good question, Hose! Unfortunately I am not able to provide a reliable answer, but only the thoughts and ideas that I try to apply myself. By the way, the same applies for spoons from the Baltic you find in the Netherlands, not only in Denmark and Sweden. The only way I have been able...

Thank you very much again Theoderich! I made two mistakes: I have been looking for the *castle* and not for the *horn* and I misread the maker's mark as FFK and not FEK. It is only when I posted the photos that I saw that it was FEK, but the post had already gone. Friederich Esdras Klein fits very w...

Could you please help with identifying the town mark and possibly the maker? I have not been able to find them in Rosenberg, von Czihak, Scheffler (Ostpreussen, Mittel- und Nordostdeutschland, Niedersachsen) and in the common reference websites. If they are Norwegian or Danish I don't have good refe...

Thank you very much Bahner! After Theoderich found the maker I searched for the complete name and Cuxhaven and found that E. Wöbber's family came from Otterndorf on the North Sea coast (note the r!). That gave me the idea that "Ottdf." was the abbreviation for Otterndorf... Your further e...

Many thanks Theoderich! I thought it might be in one of the volumes I have not got. I thought it might be from that region of Germany: if you search for Wöbber you find other people with that name and they are all from around those parts. And now I can only hope that someone turns up who can still ...

I need help with the identification of the maker of my captain's spoon. https://www.925-1000.com/pics/Ximg.jpg https://www.925-1000.com/pics/Ximg.jpg (admin photo edit - images too large - link only - see Posting Requirements ) The mark/maker is not in Rosenberg, Scheffler (Mittel- und Nordost Deuts...

Hello Fishless, Sorry for the late answer. I had to return home and look up some references. J. F. Hein (not J. J. Hein) was indeed a merchant/ship's chandler/dispatcher in Danzig at that time. I know I have some information but unfortunately I can't find it at the moment. I do remember that it was ...

Gentlemen, Theoderich anticipated exactly what I intended to point out. The HD and the fineness mark 12 are identical in the photograph of the OP's spoon and Theoderich's photo. Furthermore, I think I have seen perhaps a dozen spoons from Gustav Möller and quite a few are with the sequence of marks...

Hello Fishless, The markings on your spoon are quite common. You can find two maker's marks, one maker's mark, and then a variety of combinations of town mark, date letter and assayer's scratching. It seems that there's a greater "flexibility" in the marking... You find the same on Scottis...

Hello Essexboy, I found your post only today. Your spoon is indeed a "Captain's Spoon", given to a skipper who had delivered or taken wares to/from/through the firm of Gustav Moeller (or Möller) in Königsberg in 1852. The maker is most likely Carl Heinrich Dengel (W. Scheffler, Die Golds...

Hello Harren1, I found your post only today. A previous post indicated that the maker of that spoon was the silversmith Christoph Heinrich Wilhelm Gamper, active in Courland from around 1818. There are at least three silversmiths with the name Gamper working in Courland around that time and without ...

Thank you for the additional references. All museums in Friesland (both Dutch and German) have numerous references to the past shipping and maritime trade, and have numerous photos of what they call "souvenirs", as oel indicates with the URL to the Frisian Museum. Dognose's Kleyenstüber P...

Very many thanks for the reference. Now I can ask the library service to get me a copy of it. For several years I have been slowly collecting spoons and reference material, with the ultimate goal to write up something not only about the spoons and the makers (this is relatively easy) but about their...

Thank you very much. I have the Veenkolonialmuseum report (it's in Dutch). I look forward to hearing from you when you find the rest of the reference. Thankyou in advance.
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At one occation I tryed to buy a spoon from Pillau with LLOYDS SHIP AGENTS engraved but price was to high. Pilau = Baltiysk today. I have see pictures of Ernst Castell from Königsberg and Mayer & Comp. Reval (Tallin) http://i.imagehost.org/t/0414/IMG_1712.jpg Jacob Harmsen Jun Libau, Benj. Sch...