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As long as I'm asking about odd single marks, who knows anything about a seated griffin in profile mark? http://c.imagehost.org/t/0151/BAVARIAN_unid.jpg I call this pattern "BAVARIAN" for personal reasons, as an aide memoire , but it is American coin. It is similar to an unknown Duhme patt...

Does anyone have a documented reference about whose mark this is? http://c.imagehost.org/t/0983/FRANKLIN_unid.jpg Belden attributes it to Charles Donnelly of Philadelphia, and her illustration shows both the name "Donnelly" and "Harvey R. Caberey," also of Philadelphia. However, ...

Whilst not exactly the same pattern of engraving, your fork looks remarkably like my Bailey & Co. POINTED END TWIST (LEAVES). http://c.imagehost.org/t/0284/P_TD_END_TWISTleaves_Bailey.jpg Also, your fork's lion mark looks like the larger of the two lion marks on my knife. I would guess that Hayd...

These spoons are bigger than berry spoons--all over 9.5 inches long--and the bowls are larger in proportion to the handle than berry spoons. I have seen ice cream slices, spades and shovels, so there were definitely a lot of ways to serve it.
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These are all coin spoons and all over 9 inches in length. All but one have one scalloped/fancy edge and one plain edge. They were produced in the time before the great proliforation of serving forms that took place in the late 19th century. http://www.9251000.com/f/0sh1.jpg The question is: what we...

I'm glad that you were able to identify family silver because of the article, Bonnie! IVY doesn't appear all that often, but it's not impossible to find, either. To locate more pieces I would search under N. Harding as well as Knowles and K&L. I don't think the pattern name is well-known, but so...

Thanks for your kind thoughts, Cheryl. As to why Knowles & Ladd left so much of their output unmarked, my only thought--and it's just a guess--is that the vast majority of their stock was perhaps sold through retailers, and some retailers didn't want any other mark on the silver but their own. T...

Charles Shaver made two variants of this pattern, which I call "COTTAGE ROSETTE." The only variation is in the circle halfway down the handle. http://c.imagehost.org/t/0463/COTTAGE_ROSETTE_forum.jpg Shaver used several different manufacturing marks. Both of my examples carry his "C.C....

I think you have fallen victim to the very poorly laid out pages 104-05 of Silver in the Golden State . All of page 104 is to be read before any of page 105. So although it looks as though Vanderslice made 24 patterns if you read across both pages horizontally, the next Vanderslice pattern after CEL...