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If the Gdansk book exists, why not use that book to try and match the makers' mark and town mark stamped together on the bottom of the piece in question? ::: If I had the Gdansk book, I would search the book, but I don't have the book but if someone does have the book that would be the correct way t...

:::: So your piece does have the word "STERLING" on it, I was only looking at the pictures on my phone which didn't have the word "STERLING" but now I see the text so your pieces do all have the word "STERLING" printed on them, I miss text entries when I look at this we...

The "18xx" should read as "1868" and sometimes abbreviated as "PAT. 68" ::: This pattern is in the database as "(1865) (Ivy) (Designer: George Wilkinson)" which I was so confused because my spoons read "PAT. 68" so why would the Gorham database say t...

Another piece has "Copenhagen Silver Industry LTD" alongside this symbol so that might be the original maker of these pieces. :::

:::: Check "Burmese Silver Bowl" from modern-day Myanmar used to be Burma ::::

The date of the copyright and the company is available but the record request is pending. ::::

H.F. Wichmann copyrighted the "Aloha" spoon. ::::: Wall & Dougherty copyrighted the "Honolulu" spoon of which Watson was a subsidiary. ::: All this has already been established, I'm confused why you go over this again. ::: Old books won't solve this mystery, but retrieving th...

Do a search for "Japanese Chrysanthemum Spoons" or read "The Yokohama Conundrum" by Adrien Von Ferscht (I believe I read it on this forum for the first time but it is archived on the internet). ::: "The Musashiya company, created by Ozeki Yahei and under the aegis of his son...

Now we're getting somewhere, the 3 spoons share a common origin ::: Many of the spoons in the photos you post I've owned, many different kinds of naturalistic spoons from England, USA, Germany, Japan, and it seems like the Japanese spoons have the most similarity to the 3 spoons (Aloha, Honolulu and...

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Just for future reference, can I write the name of an auction house (like the administrators of this website have written dozens of times without being censored one single time) or will I be specifically singled out and have the word edited out of my post? :::: The administrators can use these words...

Are people allowed to use a search engine and see the "Aloha" example so they can reach the conclusion that H.F. Wichmann most likely knew a Hawaiian silversmith who was trained in the Japanese form of the open-work bon-bon spoon and was the originator of this form? ::: The Watson manufact...

I would show the ***edit*** images but they can be retrieved by copying and pasting the words within quotes. :::: Another really interesting example is "A SILVER HAWAIIAN COIN SOUVENIR SPOON. Mark of Shreve, San Francisco, c.1900. Hawaiian half dollar coin in bowl, with port" which helps e...

Clearly I am referring to an artistic "source" - an aesthetic "source" - rather than a physical factory in that tweet. ::: Few people are familiar with the craze for all things Hawaiian that swept the mainland USA circa 1915, I learned about it after collecting ukuleles and Hawai...

This one is difficult. :::: I wanted to check the "Bermuda & West Indies" section but I think those pictures disappeared when TinyPic imploded. ::: Of course at first you would think Scottish Provincial Silver but then I thought maybe Cape Town or Canadian. ::::

There always did seem to be a Japonaiserie influence on this spoon, having seen spoons from Japan that were similarly shaped (but of exquisite quality, the highest quality examples are truly stunning), it does not surprise me that there could be a Hawaiian source here, the year 1912 is interesting a...

The poppy became the official state flower of California in 1903 ::: When I had this spoon I was researching it and it was claimed that Gorham was the manufacturer of this spoon but SHREVE, TREAT & EACRET were the retailers of the spoon. ::: I am not certain how this was known, but I have heard ...

The pin mechanism and the overall design of the brooch points to circa 1910, so I would think it to be an older piece, but I cannot figure out what the design of the maker's mark is, are there initials embedded within that design? ::: Still a mystery to me. ::::

I'm trying to go through all the Scottish Provincial names. :::: Could you give a sharper photo of that tower thing? ::: Is that a tower with stars around it, or is it an anchor? Or is it something else? ::::

When a digital camera takes a picture, the software then builds pixels based on that image, so the pictures that we see are not as good as holding the object in hand. :::: The only letters are {K.T} then and the hallmark is complete, I understand that now. ::: I still believe I am on the right track...