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C.F. Hurd shown deceased in 1921 Jewelers Circular: https://books.google.com/books?id=dFUcAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA113&lpg=RA1-PA113&dq=jewelers+circular+c.f.+hurd&source=bl&ots=6DCOO0SNe5&sig=ACfU3U0AYf6qtY6NITSzDqoo3ubzea3ujg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwihtM3zlqjtAhUDr54KHb7...

Begins Herman? If so, how many letters after that?

Might make sense...I tried to chase Jaques and got a Charles coming up...I believe NY in watches. Orfevres led nowhere, so I could not reconcile what the "O." might be.

Military badge sites indicate Rudolf Souval lived 1819-1899. The firm survived under new ownership and continued on in the field of militaria. Last reports circa 2008 (see photo of known shop) engaged in corporate pins type wares. [Photos posted openly on net...delete if in any violations.] https://...

Sample hallmarked sterling teapot: viewtopic.php?f=53&t=55576

Sample, initialed baby/child fork:

In searching for evidence, I discovered the word fabulous was used to describe things like Hoover Dam in tourist media but was not clearly associated with the Flamingo Hotel until the early '50's period. So it made be that written historical information is more like urban mythology...you just can't ...

On salad servers of wood with sterling handles. Marked twice, front & back, on each piece. Mark is similar to Frank M. Whiting only this one has all three extensions stemming from a single branch. Stubby looking like a weed succulent attacking your garden. I don't believe it's an "OW",...

The link seems to be down, but R&B used only picto-symbols to represent years, only beginning in 1928. The "18" is where you would normally see an item/inventory/stock/catalog/pattern number on the wares.

Interesting...Joe Yule played the Jiggs role in movies. The Jiggs comic strip character dates back to c.1912, but the pitcher could be much later...once designed, they could produce something as long as the tooling held out. R&B maintained quality work all along.

Here's the fast commuter train to Douwe Egberts: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=47404&p=141506&hilit=douwe&sid=91a1ef8c3611b1df11b61564cea37fd6#p141506

Motor down this highway past Sola and turn in the driveway at Hooijkaas to get to "fancy DE": viewtopic.php?f=5&t=28590

The numbers part is explained here: https://www.925-1000.com/a_platenumbers.html

In .830S standard, seen listed as another spoon, but lacking the piercing details surrounding the bowl here, and being described as "Dobble Rokokko" (Double Rococo). Officially shown on this piece as Number 128 pattern. Feel free to add anything else you know about this pattern. Set 1: htt...

Escalting this to a marks question here: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=57324

Not finding anything useful on much-older, unhyphenated David Anderson flatwares on the net. We have the 1888-1925 hammer mark, limited by a 1914 inscribed dating on the handle reverse. Left of maker mark is a "15" which should correspond to a gram measure for silverplating process. But wa...

New sample of star cross star marks identified as Barbour: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=57319&p=185928&sid=b9b4f3ad30a565b1606351fb1e3c9580#p185928

Thanks for the photo submission. You have added evidence in solving other puzzles like: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=56306&p=183991&hilit=star+cross+star&sid=2f785ccbd181c21410b9fca3e47878a5#p183991

Anyone know when the Andersen firm added silverplate to the business lines?

A footnote from Victorian Jewelry by Margaret Flower (1951): Scotch pebbles were usually pieces of agate, quarried near Perth. They were frequently cut and mounted at Oberstein in Germany. (Harry Emanuel, op. cit.)--->This was in reference to information on pages 20-21 concerning the Queen's taste i...