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#Qrt.S Petman doesn't have that much to do with this spoon except there were some pictures of his spoons in the mentioned book. The marks in those were placed similarly on the front side of the spoon near the finial and next to eachother which is a somewhat unusual place. So I was just wondering if ...

I think it could be just a symbol of Poseidon/Neptunus and purely decorative. The similar symbol can be found in classical Greek imagery and it's featured for example in coins (both ancient and modern).

"Viipurin hopeat" (Vyborg's silverware) by Marketta Tamminen shows some pictures of spoons by Henrik Petman and C.C.Forsman (p.103-104). The marks in Petman's spoons are placed similarly than in the spoon in question so it could be typical for Vyborg. But on the other hand the spoon by For...

The town mark could be for Vyborg [Wiburg(de), Viborg(sv), Viipuri(fi)] which is nowadays part of Russia but originally a Finnish/Swedish town. During the 18th century Vyborg was part of the Russian empire but silver from that period is usually categorized as Finnish and included in books about Finn...

The style of the spoon doesn't look like mid-17th century to me. I've only seen this type of spoons dating from the early 18th century onwards. Late 17th century spoons usually had a rattail whereas the type in question was made of a single piece. In England it's usually called the Hanoverian patter...

It's definitely Stockholm and the maker is Samuel Blomberg. See this topic: viewtopic.php?t=36729

The coronet is that of a baron and the badge is for a baronet of Nova Scotia so not the Order of the Garter. The motto on the ribbon of the badge reads Fax mentis Honestae Gloria. The crest appears to be that of Lord Reay who were also a baronets and whose motto is Manu Forti. For more information s...

Gewe Silvervarufabriken Ab, Malmö and I9=1959.

The item was made in Stockholm and the crown is for Swedish untitled nobility. The coat of arms are probably for husband and wife so you are looking for two different families. Unfortunately there are quite many Swedish noble families but there's an online register of their coat of arms. You could p...

The date letter H looks like London 1982 so definitely it shouldn't be found 16th century coin. Maybe it's a museum replica or something like that. Or a genuine coin later modified to be part of an item and thus hallmarked. Could you post an image of the coin itself although this isn't really a foru...

Could be a calendar stick. Numbers 1-7 indicate week days and then you can calculate something based on that. Might be from India or some other Asian country. Numbers 1-7 are clearly European style and so is the stick apart from the decoration so my guess would be that it's from the colonial time an...

I don't see a bear in the hallmark but to be honest many examples of Pori town mark don't look like a bear either: https://www.leimat.fi/en/pori I couldn't find any other items made by Petrelius except that creamer so I can't say if he used a mark with dots. Are there any signs of a crown mark anywh...

It could be BB instead of RB. Here's a BB mark with three pellets with an appropriate date (1762-65) but unfortunately it's listed unknown and not shown in Grimwade.

https://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/Mak ... BB.html#BB

The link in the previous post didn't work let's try with a direct link to the photo:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... 477%29.jpg

The palace on the right looks like this one: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File ... 6037742477).jpg

Unfortunately the name of the building is not mentioned but the coordinates point to the Al Alam Palace so it might be part of it.

I don't think it's an electoral hat/coronet because all versions of it have ermine rims. The coronet in question appears to have strawberry leaves and pearls like in British coronets but it's a bit different than tose of a marquess or an earl. And coronet above a monogram (OMS?) is a bit strange bec...

It's Shefield, not London. Marks from left to right: Coronation mark (Elizabeth II), crown is the town mark for Sheffield, lion passant (sterling silver), date letter L for 1953 (hence the coronation mark) and the makers' mark for John Sanderson & Son Ltd.

Does the hallmark have some kind of little bulges? Then it could be William Comyns & Sons.

See: https://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/Mak ... WE.html#WC

Could be American. The mark of Wendell Manufacturing Co. (Chicago) looks very similar.

See: https://www.925-1000.com/americansilver_W2.html (the last one on the page)

Google search "christies hanau silver" found similar stag sold in 2013 and it's described "MARK OF NERESHEIMER, HANAU, CIRCA 1901". Hanau silver or pseudo hallmarks aren't equal to a fake so I don't see any reason why Christie's etc. wouldn't sell them unless wrongly described as...