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Hi - welcome to the forums. Good job on posting your pics.

To my eye, this appears to be a cast pewter replica of a dognose spoon, perhaps from a museum (British Museum?)

~Cheryl

It really is important to post all marks present on a piece, am not sure I understand why all information wouldn't be given in the initial post - in this case, there is a good possibility that the importer's mark would be one often related to Hanau makers...

~Cheryl

Hazorfim - still in business...

~Cheryl

The 'Q' is the date letter for 1884. The images below are from Carpenter's 'Gorham Silver: 1831-1981' (1981), pages 87 and 288 respectively: https://i.postimg.cc/Gp8s2PZ4/gorhamelectroplate-Carpenterpage87.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/Dy8p7HxF/gorhamelectroplate-Carpenterpage288.jpg ~Cheryl

Well, everyone makes mistakes - the primary reference for Gorham, Carpenter's 'Gorham Silver: 1831-1981', will also tell you that it's a silverplate mark...

~Cheryl

The anchor alone is an electroplate mark, and well-documented as such - the ad below is from 1869...

~Cheryl

Excerpt from the 1870 Bristol County Directory, cited by Silverly: https://i.postimg.cc/23R5Mbcd/whitingsilverplatedware1870bristolcountydirectory.jpg And a 2014 post on a Whiting coin spoon with their 'W/chimera' mark (as already mentioned, my brain is disorganized of late, and my memory just as ba...

Personally, can't recall seeing a piece of Whiting Mfg. silverplate, have always known them as a 'solid silver only' manufacturer, and they advertised themselves as such in the 1890s. Don't believe I've even seen any coin silver bearing Whiting Mfg. marks, though certainly have seen coin with earlie...

Would suggest that a German maker would be more likely, looks to me like a 'Hildesheimer Rose' design...

~Cheryl

Hi ~ welcome to the forums. Good job on posting your pics, but please only one item per post. Your other items should be posted in the silverplate forum...

~Cheryl


Please see Posting Requirements: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10

It is 'Mythologique' - you don't mention size, but by the design variation and shape of the pieces, looks like the salad set...

~Cheryl

'Jubileum' (Jubilee), designed by Jacob Prytz, based on classic double-thread, introduced in 1932 for the 100th anniversary of Tostrup.

~Cheryl

~Cheryl

By size and shape, your item is most likely a spoon tray...

~Cheryl

Thank you, Goldstein! Will pass this along...

~Cheryl

Thank you all! Will pass this on, and any other further discussion as well...

~Cheryl

Posting this for a friend, looking for any information. Thank you for taking a look... https://i.postimg.cc/KvkSrGqb/russiancloisonnesaltspoon-1.jpg [url=https://postimg.cc/5XFgzKJQ] https://i.postimg.cc/7ZKWpjQ9/russiancloisonnesaltspoon-2.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/43zhKTkb/russiancloisonnesaltspoo...

Posting this for a friend, looking for any information. Thank you for taking a look... https://i.postimg.cc/Dz6ScwS5/russiancloisonnesalt-1.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/wTNkHZ4H/russiancloisonnesalt-2.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/sDPZTr0B/russiancloisonnesalt-3.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/9M1ndK5s/russiancloi...

Circa 1960s, don't see any problem with the marks, typical in style and location - see this thread from 2010: http://925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=18974

~Cheryl

The left-facing lion and the Roman 'G' would date it to somewhere between 1852/3 and the mid 1860s...

~Cheryl