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Okay, buyers from St. Louis firm Whelan-etc.-Hutchinson visited New York in 1902 staying at the New Amsterdam Hotel: https://books.google.com/books?id=vHQoAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA4-PA52&lpg=RA4-PA52&dq=whelan-aehle-hutchinson+new+york&source=bl&ots=36biZlJrit&sig=ACfU3U2Lne4wF3fmBg5pfG...

Thanks, Trev. Rough time frame 1901-1943 for N10. Squared butt sword appears closet to mark sample D (perhaps a bit tweaked at the blade end), so that tentatively reduces the production era to 1901-1905. Looks like I won't have to use this as a garden tool after all.

Okay, this one is a long shot*, but he sort of resembles an interpretation of the pied piper of Hamelin and 10 Lot/Loth was used in Germany. Could this "N 10" (an approximation of what it might read if clear) be more than number ten of a series in base metal? And is that an odd shaped key-...

Standard link to the Chritofle marks section: https://www.925-1000.com/a_christofle.html

So are we looking at a commercial wares date coding system of the early 20th century where 12 is 1912? Or is it another grams mark?

A question often arising is what books are recommended as sources. Here's an online compilation from 2017: https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/han ... sAllowed=y

Might it help?

For Horsehead PR marks, see here: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=48690&p=165421&hilit=german+silverplate+90&sid=fd0ce20ba766fd9c81e19a32d73be5e7#p165421

Photos would certainly help, but the 1894 Washington pattern first produced by Howard and then successor Roger Williams seems a possible for those spoons (full beading, angling out and then in, and sharply terminating at a point). The Hotel Arcadia itself is both of extreme historical interest and g...

The prize cup date must be 1908...the front date of 1907 is for the "Season" which would be a tally at the end of the year. Try to check the pedestal bottom with a finger...if it feels sharp on the edges, then the probabilities are strongly in favor of silverplated base metals. Sterling is...

Rose & Crown Angling Society was active in 1896 and fishing the Thames in this entry: https://books.google.com/books?id=A9BKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA358&lpg=PA358&dq=rose+%26+crown+angling+society+britain&source=bl&ots=2y6yB12SHR&sig=ACfU3U2iqsP14LBjNw08ZMN7rl8Q8kBhag&hl=en&...

No clear details in document, but notification of Diamond Silver Co. filing National Recovery Administration (N.R.A.) fair trade exemption in 1935: https://books.google.com/books?id=mf3-_2jXX6IC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=fair+trade+hearing+diamond+silver+co.&source=bl&ots=vYkBe9NlBs&...

On 30 November 1921, commercial industry news notice of International Silver Company being granted a trademark for silverplated wares: https://books.google.com/books?id=xwIcAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PA105-IA3&lpg=RA4-PA105-IA3&dq=federal+reports+diamond+silver+company+silver+plated&source=bl&a...

We can add Chicago & Northwestern Railway (back mark fancy C.&N.W. Ry.) to the user list on this (via a listing). Also a hotel called The Margaret (per listing).

Thanks Cheryl. You got me looking again for fountains and drug stores with soda facilities, and I may have hit upon an answer to the location. This one's a long route...may start with Swift's Pharmacy at Second & Pike (here in 1907): https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/data/batches/wa_indianplum_...

SMP Silver Salon Forums thread displaying within a sample of a coffin end spoon by Nehemiah Bassett with eagle and rectangle maker mark: https://www.smpub.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/003286.html

Best source now : https://www.americansilversmiths.org/makers/silversmiths/132501.htm Note: Thorn (1949) held like rectangle mark to be that of Francis Bassett New York NY circa 1774. WEV's project notes an earlier Francis Bassett having no mark sample. I think the Federal eagle should be enough her...

The eagle neck looks right and even the "E" turns down at the outer top.

I think what looks like TSETT is actually a corrupted SSETT, so have a look at BASSETT Albany NY here: https://www.sterlingflatwarefashions.co ... /SSB4.html

Just a wild guess on the C in AC: viewtopic.php?f=32&t=7477&p=15936&hilit=peru+a%27mano&sid=d4870aa1c9b91bda0c6eb8654cfb6d93#p15936

Nothing definite, but possibly a route to investigate.

So the mouse charm and the bracelet come from the same maker?

Might need to invert that one...there's a word above it that may be DENMARK, so the letters would be HS (or MS?).