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Sample ware: Silverplate Creamer #513 bearing the 9 Maple logo of the Royal Candian Navy and manufactured by the Ontario based firm of Wm. A. Rogers (by then a subsidiary of Oneida) in "STURDY-HOTEL-PLATE" Silver Soldered for institutional or commerical supply. It is not yet known whether ...

An open-ended string to investigate silver wares related to the naval services of Canada from their formation until modern age. Emphasis upon dining wares, presentation services, and silver awards but open to add images to document the periods of activity and the associated insignias, ships, uniform...

There could be a remote possibility of a connection to Leonard Silver Plate as they occassionally used some pseudo set which included a lion mark. Maybe this was another variational set.

Edward Don & Company of Chicago is noted to have supplied wares to the Stock Yard Inn located near the entrance way of the Chicago Stock Yards complex. While this facility, which had replaced the old Transit House, had a long service, it should be noted that it had been rebuilt at least once as ...

The basics: Jacob Tostrup Oslo Norway (Jug mark left), 830S-->.830 Silver alloy after circa 1892, standard began to be replaced in Norway after circa 1920 (See info. at top Intro.): https://www.925-1000.com/Fnorway_marks4.html#1

Pattern:???

Look across to the right side of your image where there appears to be an upside down "13". If that is really there, then it might be a 13 Loth mark (the silver fineness level in the alloy), and that would point to central Europe (German et al). also, if that is a small indentation in the c...

CHICAGO, ST. PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS & OMAHA RAILWAY (C.St.P.M.&O Ry.) by Reed & Barton Set of 6 Forks (7") in Modern Art Pattern... With predecessor roots back to 1865, The "Omaha Road" was formed from a group of railroads that came together to make an arc extending from the ov...

Sample set glass on sterling gadrooned ring bases. Sugar: 3 1/4" H x 6" extreme handle to handle. Creamer: 4" H extreme x 4 3/4" extreme spout to handle. Mark: Man-head/Crown/S-gothic. STERLING. No item numbers. https://i.postimg.cc/9Q8rhg0q/image.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/cJv647t...

Landers NS is noted on object (locksmithing) tied-in to Landers Frary Clark marking: https://5008.sydneyplus.com/HistoryColo ... 072ce21432

Pages on James P. Steele Rochester 1834-, whose price list is included, and has generally been credited with use of this mark: https://www.americansilversmiths.org/ma ... 137881.htm

For the A.H. Nash link: only one Lester Alonzo Nash born August 1836 of unknown parentage/siblings in Rochester. Died 1918. This would post date the cholera epidemic and no Nash's are found on the list of deceased for that event. No other Nash family records found so far for Rochester in pre1860 era.

Pages on Cook working history: http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~silversm ... /54695.htm

There is a known apprenticeship under Erastus Cook, so this would seem to confer he was a maker (of something): https://www.smpub.com/ubb/Forum19/HTML/000481.html

Note this prior sample found in Rochester but bearing no retailer names: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=29071

The commonly known "Wholesaler" mark of Arm/"R"/Eagle now found linked to "Retailer" mark of E.Cook (sans cartouche). If it is Erastus Cook of Rochester New York 1793-1864 is the main question. Whether the "R" is linked to Rochester is another. TIA https://i.p...

Additional info for this maker: Place spoon sample bears added mark of E.Cook (sans cartouche). Retailer mark, normally in cartouche and associated with Erastus Cook Rochester N.Y 1793-1864 (accorded by Thorn 1949). Should Cook prove to be a maker, then "R" might be linked to Rochester(???).

Question of this maker began here: viewtopic.php?f=23&t=7291&p=198509&sid=01abc9c9c6b7263310a84b006330fbda#p198509

Question of maker repeats again here: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=29071&p=71708&hilit=Arm+eagle+coin&sid=1d96b7a043488ce3f41faf5aab688ecf#p71708

A much older concern over fake Sterling from a British source: https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=36151&p=155808&hilit=american+sterling+law&sid=79e6db63338e5c521a6fc2eb9f2f99bf#p155808 Items marked Sterling and sold in New York have been (at least in the past) requi...

Legit markings, see here: https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=43546&p=124455&hilit=export+made+in+england&sid=34c69371aa4fbe6aaadd819b7c77768b#p124455 .925 minimum fineness already covered by authentic formal British Hallmark. Tiffany & Company retailer mark for th...