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Thanks Phil I will label them as such in my database. Figured I might as well sort through this stuff systematically.

I've found the following with various items I have inherited recently. They don't actually look like a set since the patterns are different but they were all together. I can't find any marks on them. So I am wondering; 1. if marks are hidden in any standard places other than obviously on the bottom ...

This set of spoons was bought in Melbourne, Australia. Sadly the sugar tongs are missing. from this shop X which was perhaps a branch of the English firm. The shop was taken over in 1930 X X Using the info on this site I guess the spoons to be made in Sheffield in 1899 from sterling silver by W.R. H...

Ah yes.

I see on further reading that oxygen is highly soluble in liquid silver and normally is expelled when cooling but if somehow the cooling happens without expelling the oxygen you might get the results you have seen.

Here's a possible example of early Drewsens work. https://www.925-1000.com/pics/Ximg.jpg https://www.925-1000.com/pics/Ximg.jpg It's night here so there are a few too many reflections from my microscope light but the pictures are probably clear enough. In the first marks we appear to have the II sym...

and rummaging further through my stuff I have found a couple of spoons with H.C.D, presumably the founder. Again the marks are quite rough and not perfectly lined up on the axis of the handle.

and thanks for the link to Mrs Drewsens....

Thanks Dognose (or Trev).

It does look like the Danish electroplate two towers. I had missed the note under the three towers symbols.

Very rough job. What's the base likely to be made of?

I have a set of six of these https://www.925-1000.com/pics/Ximg.jpg though in fact there are four with a slightly narrower bowl and two with a wider one. However all have the same marks. A two tower castle, the letters C. C. D (no dot after the D), a crown and the letter I https://www.925-1000.com/p...

Thanks Hose.

No standards in that text then.

In summary probably 18th Century pewter baroque candlesticks.

Now that you mention the possibility of pewter Hose I have tried a rough density measurement using kitchen scales and a bowl of water and get a value of 7. The bowl was wide since I laid the candlesticks on their sides to not have any air bubbles and the scales were not super accurate but good to a ...

Thanks Qrt.S

Hose, My reason for thinking it silver is that my uncle told me that it is. That does not of course mean that it is true. That's just he remembers from what his father told him. I did not know pewter could take such a shine but I must admit the underside does not really look very like silver. I agre...

Intriguing. I wonder if somehow the ingots were produced by a very active process comparable to whipping eggs so there is a very very fine bubble network within the silver. When you remelt the silver this is destroyed. Shame the firm has disappeared.

Hello again, The following are images of a pair of candlesticks which my family has had for at least 200 years and which we believe to have been made in Sweden. There are no standard marks suggesting that they data from before the Swedish standard mark system was introduced though there is some writ...

Thanks for that Hose and Qrt. I figured that there might be some information lacking from the Maker's dates. So it's a sugar sifter. My wife and I wondered if it was for preserved fruit so you could drain the juice off cherries or something like getting olives out of brine but brine would not be goo...

I have started going through a selection of silverware inherited from various sources. Most of it seems to be Danish and Swedish with some English items and some I have no idea where they come from. Among others I have this spoon. https://www.925-1000.com/pics/Ximg.jpg With the following marks https...