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I'm sorry I can't help with identifying the Italian maker, but I can help with some ideas to remove the label. Soap and warm water should soften the glue enough to remove the label with no damage to the plate. If you do not want to get it wet, an electric hair blowdryer set on high heat also does wo...

You're right, Patrick. I think I have both A.S. Hay and A. & J. Hay hallmarks around. I'll try my hand at the digital camera and see what I can do about getting images to Tom. I have about a half a dozen other Saint John silversmiths' work so I'll start polishing. I'm not sure where to post Cana...

Thanks, Patrick, My great-grandfather (A. S. Hay) was a silversmith in Saint John, New Brunswick from 1859-1921. He used to buy up old scrap silver to make into new spoons but if anything interesting turned up, he would bring it home to use instead of melting it down. I just visited my 80-year-old m...

My mother has 4 Farrington & Hunnewell spoons. One of them is marked 'coin', but the rest are not. Are they all coin silver, or could some be sterling? I know quite a bit about Canadian silver but virtually nothing about American silver. Thanks for this great site of hallmarks. Ruth
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