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If it's silver it's not English - the marks don't match the rigorous hallmark system in use. If it's English, it's silverplate. Beware of acid testing by scratching or scraping. If a piece is well plated the cut may not go deep enough. And if it does, it is usually damaging! I've seem deeply scratch...

It is Portuguese. Apparently the hallmark was in use from 1938 - 1985. Hopefully someone can give you more information!

It's a cocktail shaker - designed for something a lot more potent than coffee!

Edward Charles Brown
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Looks to me like the mark of William A Rogers of New York - a large siverplate producer in the latter 19th century. Actually, I'm pretty certain this is the mark of one of the various Rogers silverplate companies - but hopefully someone can confirm which one! There were several - some related, some ...

My guess is this reads EPNS - electro-plated nickel silver.

My feeling, based on style is 1870s or 1880s. The crown mark on English silverplate copied the assay office mark for Sheffield sterling silver, thus creating a conveniently ambiguous situation. This confusing practice was prohibited around the mid 1880s. Some silverplate manufacturers did use date c...

HW might possibly be Henry Wilkinson, a well-known cutler from Sheffield.

dwt is the abreviation for pennyweight - an old measurement of approx 1.555 grams. In the case of your spoons 7 dwts of silver were used to plate a certain number of pieces - probably a dozen. In theory the more silver used, the thicker the plating and the better the quality. A1 (originally a naval ...

Your ant-eater is in fact a beaver! The maker is J Sherwood & Sons of Birmingham, England.

Nice spoons - however, as they somehow escaped having a maker's mark applied, you're never going to know who made them!
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Not English but American, made by the Gorham Manufacturing Company. Hopefully someone else can tell you the pattern name and the period it was in production.

The only mark that I recognise is the second from the right, a monogram of the letters "L" and "W" - this is the maker's mark of Lutz & Weiss of Pforzheim. The partnership was apparently founded 1882. In approximately 1884 the old system of state, city and guild marks was phased out and replaced...

Your cigarette case may be by Clark & Sewell, active in the first half of the 20th century. Your dating to 1841 may well be incorrect - during this period I would expect to see a fifth mark - a small profile of the head of Queen Victoria. This mark indicated that the tax or "duty" had been paid....

I believe the double cross mark in a triangle indicates Chekoslovakia, c.1929 to 1940.

The number 5 indicates 80 percent pure silver.

According to an internet search, your company advertised in the Syracuse Herald newspaper, New York, in April and May 1906.

I suspect your spoon was made by William Hutton & Sons Ltd of Sheffield.

Do the last two marks, in old English letters, read "B" "P"?

If so, they stand for British Plate, a nickel alloy which Hutton patented for their electro-plated lines in the latter 19th century.

Sorry to disappoint you but 1805 for the date is definately out! George Richmond Collis took over from the business of Sir Edward Thomason in Birmingham in 1835. I think your pieces in fact say EPGS which stands for Electro-plated German Silver. German silver was another name for nickel as it was or...

Looks to me (and I'm often wrong) that your date letter corresponds to 1729, however it could also be the left hand side of the "c" for 1739.

The maker is most probably Starling Wilford who was certainly active in the 1730s and seemed to specialise in spoons.
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I'm afraid I don't know the specific maker but it looks like English silverplate. The letter "S" probably indicates Sheffield. The registered design number corresponds to late 1916 or early 1917 - and is consistant with the style.