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Hi Igor, first of all if you read the rules of the forum you will find that you shouldn't post the very same post in two different sections, just not to confuse people. About the hallmarks sorry of not being very useful, I assume that the K3 is the makers initials, but I didn't found any name for it...

Thanks so much David, very very helpful. Sorry for the misleading tittle, but it is definitively a martlet, and a mural crown. Toy/Toye or Sewel families have the same family crest. (admin edit - see Posting Requirements ) Then the mural coronet in both of this crests have 5 towers (meaning town?), ...

Ice cream! of course! nowI see it, thanks, I hope you find you will find that left handed Ice cream spoon one day!

Since the forum (of 33.000 people!) nobody answers about any tip for beginners I am going to collect the tips that I was told, in order to collect them in a post that is easy to find. Goldstein dixit: It is not only important to know the marks - you must know the history and the background - and of ...

Similar to BUCHANAN and WHANNELL family crest:

http://www.silvercollection.it/DICTIONARYCRESTBUCHANAN.html

but not entirely sure, it might be a good lead.

Is hallmarked 900. If I had to make a guess would be a oil/vinegar jug. Any other idea?

Yes true. I will post any news of the family crest if I find anything.

Yes, I know that. I am asking about the family crest that is on the other side.

Sorry its a bit blurry, best I could get.

Any idea of this family crest? it does sound familiar to me but no idea really. It has a tinny star in the bottom, then the crown and then (what I think is) a gyrfalcon.

Birks serving spoon, 20 cm long. For serving what?

I am deciding on this silver jug, is tinny, the base would be 3 cm wide, and the hight 17 cm.

Thanks Qrt.S, I asked in the General forum about beginning tips, for me and for other beginners that could find it interesting. It is true that "jack of all, master of none". Please let us know about any tips if you have in the general forum!

Ah, actually the 200 year old spoon and the Georg Jensen brooch are the most intersting things ;) the rest is barely 925 marked and pretty common stuff.

Hello all, I recently started collecting silver items, mostly from antique shops and thrift stores where silver items are cheap, sometimes almost "free". I find myself with a very wide range of items, different age, purpose, condition... I would to know how to follow in order to build a co...

I didn't knew about the imperial archiving "logistic challenges" but that explains a lot. But sure, I saw that post, and I was not surprised, whatever has a hight value tends to be copied and faked, and that is why I run away from this kind of objects. I mostly collect "whatever"...

Hi Goldstein, thank you so much for the book! that is a good lead. I agree in the point that you make about history. That was my major actually. And I am enjoying way more learning about historical facts, kings, economy, events and cultural processes through silver than in boring exams. I find it am...

AG2012, I meant to ask where (in which book) it was published, but if is a book in Russian then I wont be able to read it... Qrt.S , you point that there are numerous nameless makers in Russia? was not any official register of silversmiths?? not even in Moscow?? I find it quite surprising, but I gue...

Thanks AG2012, could you mention the whole name of the source? I am finding contradictory and not very accurate info in the internet. Also Viktor Savinkov does have a dot in between the letters but it higher positioned?
Any clues about the maker anyway?

The spoons are thinner than the hallmark, so I need various to show you the full hallmark.