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Hello I managed to get a crisper image of the marks but I believe they are unhappily not maker's marks. They appear to me as written in the old English Gothic style of lettering and say EPNS but now seeing Phil's picture it does appear to be EPGS. The Gothic script is often used on 19th and early 20...

Hello Steve, welcome and thank you for some nice interesting marks to start off with. I think you will get quite a few opinions as to the manufacturer of your Mum's spoon.There are no letters to help but the pictorial marks may be traceable. The association of the middle 2 marks do suggest one maker...

Hello JoanW, I noted your response to AG2012’s comments. I think you will need to learn a little new vocabulary. I offer you first “silver standard guarantee mark”. Most nations have their own and often it is pictorial or a combined pictorial numerical mark as some nations have more than one silver ...

Hello I noted the spoon marks shown below on line a short while ago. http://www.925-1000.com/td/f/Trash/Walsall-1.jpg I am not from Walsall but I have been there on many occasions and was intrigued to know a little bit more about these finial marks. Walsall is not far from Birmingham in England’s Mi...

Thank you AG2012 for your quick response to my post. I spent a couple weeks trying to get it composed and you answered all my questions in a matter of hours. I am sure your information will be a reference for many more Polish silver researchers.
Thanks
Fishless

Hello Lucy, I just came across your post. I just looked at your hallmark photos and wondered if the first mark was not in fact a 4, but was an A or even a castle shaped like a pyramid?. Castles are a common town/city marks in German silver. Silver centers around Hamburg used a castle with a door in ...

Hello, I just bought a spoon that had bowl struck marks that I could not positively identify. The marks needed cleaning but I thought I could see one mark with a women’s head and a curvaceous number 3. I hoped it was a silver spoon as a women’s head is always promising in my view. A picture of the s...

Hello and thank you Dognose for the review of my photo. I am very pleased to own this Provincial Scottish spoon by John Keith. I just measured the spoon. It is 17 cms long and 4 cms across the bowl.
Yours
Fishless

Hello thank you Dendriet for your speedy reply. I see you have helped Dognose with the same maker in 2015. I have referenced that post below. http://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=12636&p=121896&hilit=belgium#p28178 Am I now correct in understanding Huben is the family name o...

Hello I think I may have that picture that everybody wants to see and it is shown later. I just bought a fork from the inter net because I believed it was not as advertised but could be early. The on line photos did not tell me where the fork came from but its figural and lettered maker’s mark put t...

Hello, just another spoon and another IK mark for perusal. http://www.925-1000.com/td/f/Scotland/Keith-John-example-2.jpg From my very limited knowledge of Scottish spoons I believe this spoon could well be an example of a toddy spoon. Although this spoon lacks any extra Scottish Provincial marks I ...

Hello I’ve just bought a small souvenir spoon and wondered if I could join the French JM maker discussion? I bought my spoon on line with the feeling its maker’s mark was the JM with the “beehive “ in between the 2 letters belonging to the Paris silversmith “Joseph Mondinelli”. http://www.925-1000.c...

Hello, a couple of years ago a German souvenir spoon I acquired caused me to put the word “REU” into our forum’s search facility. The only reference generated was a French address with a “typo”. A quick inter net check made me no wiser though there were numerous on line sale listings, more particula...

Thank you again Peter. I now can put a label on another spoon and more importantly an unrecorded maker’s mark is “out there” on the web with a likely owner. Hopefully others can find it, discuss it and confirm it. This search has also taught me that images are frequently used in Dutch maker’s marks ...

Hello, thank you Peter for the quick reply. A hammer could be the upper character but with a hand lens the last letter does not look like a “B”. That said we all know the frustration caused by 100 years of spoon use that leaves very little of the marks to research at all. I have uploaded 2 more phot...

Hello I saw a spoon on line and could not identify the marks. I could see the “Dutch dagger” but the maker’s mark was obscured. I now own the spoon but I am not very much wiser about the identification of the spoon. I know from the “Our” web site and Forum that the “sword” mark started in 1804 and t...

Hello, I just got round to finally catalogue a Danish silver spoon I bought some time ago. Easy I thought, just go to the 925-1000 wed site and look it up. 3 towers mark and smudged date mark. Possibly 1881? Small entwined letter mark for the assay master and written makers mark. All so easy with so...

Hello I came recently across a souvenir spoon made by the Germany based “Antiko” silver/silver plating concern. Some photos are below. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/W39PACp0o4-rvdo5CfGRdxq6jygQaF5oaryQgZeMjk8=w558-h227-p-no https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/1wQ-5FdP_8uZsF2ZV3S2TU_FhsXR0hxX0yUX-e...

Hello, I don't know where to query problems like this. There seem to have been some some "software" changes on the forum. My posts that contain "quote marks" and "apostrophes" appear now to have "computer code" replacing those grammatical marks. Am I imagining...

Hello, just researching some electroplate spoons I bought in a mixed lot and hope this photo and post might be useful. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-8Mx01z3fPqo/VRGqOdAntEI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/w3wAJrIlcqY/w958-h569-no/Multi%2Bspn%2Bmarks%2BMar15Ex%2B001X.jpg The "Debesco" mark appears to rela...