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Hello, I wondered if some members of the Forum would like to see my recently acquired, probable salt spoon. It is 11 cms long (4 inches and a bit) and has a clear set of interesting pseudo hallmarks on the finial. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50786809642_eb822f05e8_c.jpg Looking around on the...

Thank you Todd, as you suggested, your marks look a good match to ones in the composite image.
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Hello I thought I could add a couple of images to this post about this Gateshead based silversmith who only needed a quick hop across the river Tyne to the Northern, Newcastle bank to have his work assayed. Surprisingly, looking at Dognose's 1400 ozs silver assayed figure, he didn't seem to have gon...

Hello Becky, if you are still there? Welcome to the Forum. Your post has had nearly 400 views but maybe the diminutive photo has stiffled replies. Even looking at it on the hosting site (a step that a lot of Forum members are worried about doing), did not make the marks much clearer. Bravely, I look...

Hello again Todd, sorry, I was interrupted yesterday (by a hot meal) and was unable to expand on my answer. The surname "Harwood" is well known in the electroplate world and from an early time. "Thomas Harwood", also from Birmingham, is perhaps best known and our Forum main websi...

Hello, welcome to the forum. I will start you off with the name "Harwood" for the maker's mark. Without a picture of all the marks together, a slightly more distant view, I will have a little guess that it is an item with marks attributed to "Henry Millington Harwood" of Birmingh...

Hello Per, we see no silver guarantee mark and no fineness mark so most likely to be a silver plated items. Confirming Dognose's identification of the maker, the "silvercollection.it" has the manufacturers mark "HRS&Co", the same lettering that is on your items, also listed a...

Henry Lee, H. Lee & Sons 69 & 70 Charles Street, Hull From 1892 Hull Trades and Professions by Street and by Surname. Referenced as "Lee Henry", watchmaker at 69 & 70 Charles Street and "Lee Henry", watchmaker & jeweller, 69 & 70 Charles Street The photos are ...

Hello Funkel, the V and R on those official marks, mentioned by Dognose, indicate "in the reign of Queen Victoria". The "R" is for Regina, derived from Latin, and an equivalent to the Spanish "Reina".
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Hello again, I was looking at another Dutch spoon on line recently and thought the maker's mark "HT" under a "spoon" seemed familiar. It brought me back to this post on the "Tarner" family silversmithing concern. I noted the the image, previously uploaded by myself, of ...

Thank you Peter for your quick "added value" response to my query.
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Hello Dutch section again. I just bought myself another Dutch spoon, and not by accident. It is 12 cms long and maybe has some "art nouveaux" type patterning on its front. Importantly it has reasonably crisp hallmarks and an edit of them is shown in my 2nd photo. https://live.staticflickr....

Hello, your photo lacks some crispness in the lettering. Is it definitely "JLH"? is the lower lettering "EPC"? If so possibly electroplate on copper. I wondered if the the "H" could be "LTD" in which case James Lodge of Sheffield could be considered. Lets hope...

Hello, this spoon would appear to me to be just right for breakfast porridge. It is said to be 16 centimetres long . https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50525721997_8a47ae4bc0_b.jpg Interesting patent date "Jan 02" agreeing with "Dragonflywink's" statement but also there is a pic...

Well its the "bus" company again. One doesn't come along for years and then two come along one after the other. Teaspoon on the front this time but same number, Sheffield 1823.



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Hello Mithrur, welcome to the forum. Also thank you for the crisp images you uploaded. The image that could give you an idea of the fork's maker is the mark halfway down its stem. The marks on the finial back of the fork are basically pseudo or false hallmarks to imitate real silver cutlery. The GS ...

Hello, at the last auction I viewed I snapped a few photos of the manufacturers mark on somes dessert spoons. I thought they carried some interesting electroplate marks. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50390167401_79e7f516c0_c.jpg "Yates" is a well known name in the Birmingham, England...

Hello, here is a picture from my collection of images that I have labelled as "probably John Harrison" of Sheffield. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50331334507_ddc7184edc_z.jpg This has a crown and a head like mark to add to the "cat" to nearly make a full set of pseudo hall...

Hello, TS, it is always better to "embed the image" as more people will see it. Not everybody is happy to look to another site to see an image. I have had a look though and I hope you have realised that your spoon is just silver plated and not readily datable as so much of European solid s...

W.R.Bullen Norwich Hello, this is little extra information to go with a post loaded in this section by "Dognose". That reference is: https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=40531&p=114122&hilit=bullen#p114122 My information includes a synopsis of the "history&q...