Heh, same thing happened to me when I had to move rather quickly to my Mom's as 24/7 caregiver - my always handy 4th Ed. Rainwater got stuffed in a box, couldn't find it and ended up buying a cheap used copy (actually in better shape than mine was)...
~Cheryl
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- Wed Mar 08, 2023 1:01 pm
- Forum: Sterling Manufacturers ~ American after-1860
- Topic: Medallion Spoon Trademark / Pseudo Hallmark Identification
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2362
- Wed Mar 08, 2023 8:54 am
- Forum: Sterling Manufacturers ~ American after-1860
- Topic: Medallion Spoon Trademark / Pseudo Hallmark Identification
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2362
Re: Medallion Spoon Trademark / Pseudo Hallmark Identification
Late to this, but it is Hotchkiss & Schreuder's circa 1867 pattern, shown in Soeffing's 'Silver Medallion Flatware' (1988), pages 58-59, including the Syracuse Silver and Lesser & Rheinauer marks, and also in the appendix, reprinting his 1985 article in 'Silver' magazine noting Rainwater res...
- Sat Feb 18, 2023 5:24 pm
- Forum: Mystery Objects
- Topic: Mystery Item
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4226
- Sat Feb 18, 2023 8:27 am
- Forum: Mystery Objects
- Topic: Mystery Item
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4226
Re: Mystery Item
Are you sure it opens? Looks to me like the stopper for a bottle or decanter...
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- Sun Feb 05, 2023 5:02 am
- Forum: Sterling Manufacturers ~ American after-1860
- Topic: Makers Mark
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3032
Re: Makers Mark
The 'Georgian Bead' (aka 'Marlborough'/Queen of Scots') was originally introduced in 1895 by Frank M. Whiting - at some point started researching the various connections between Whiting, Amston/Arthur Stuart, Concord, Ellmore, and eventually Crown Silver, with various patterns produced bearing diffe...
- Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:31 pm
- Forum: German, French, Dutch, Russian, Scandinavian or Other - Single Image
- Topic: Looking For Help Identifying An Unusual Mark
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3040
Re: Looking For Help Identifying An Unusual Mark
Greek, (Xi.72), fairly recent...
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- Sun Jan 15, 2023 1:44 pm
- Forum: Scandinavian Silver
- Topic: Silver snuffbox in enamel
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2229
Re: Silver snuffbox in enamel
This is a salt or pepper shaker by Norwegian maker N.M. Thune, the dating most likely mid 20th century.
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- Thu Jan 12, 2023 4:03 pm
- Forum: Gold Marks - Worldwide
- Topic: Need help to id maker of a gold ring
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2845
Re: Need help to id maker of a gold ring
Was simply a suggestion , since even with trying to make your mark image a bit sharper, my worn out old eyes can't see a clear 'S', and having never seen an actual Sydney Cowdrill mark, but having run across numerous examples of the Canadian national marks on both silver and gold over the years, not...
- Wed Jan 11, 2023 12:15 pm
- Forum: Gold Marks - Worldwide
- Topic: Need help to id maker of a gold ring
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2845
Re: Need help to id maker of a gold ring
This may be a poorly struck Canada national mark for items of fully Canadian manufacture - a crown surrounded by a 'C' (lion-head on silver) used from 1934 until 1978 when changed to a maple leaf surrounded by 'C' on both gold and silver. It's often misidentified, especially when found without a mak...
- Mon Jan 09, 2023 3:01 pm
- Forum: Sterling Manufacturers ~ American after-1860
- Topic: Gorham? plate or sterling? pattern? tea set
- Replies: 31
- Views: 32274
Re: Gorham? plate or sterling? pattern? tea set
For clarity, have no idea where the quoted "New York Factory" came from - certainly nothing I wrote... Late 1870s-early 1880s Gorham pieces marked with 'UNION SQUARE, N.Y.' are believed to have been produced in the workshop of their retail store at No. 37 Union Square, they moved to Broadw...
- Sat Jan 07, 2023 11:20 am
- Forum: Sterling Manufacturers ~ American after-1860
- Topic: Gorham? plate or sterling? pattern? tea set
- Replies: 31
- Views: 32274
Re: Gorham? plate or sterling? pattern? tea set
The 'A' through 'D' letter codes as suffix rather than prefix were used on goods produced at the New York shop rather than the Providence factory.
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- Mon Jan 02, 2023 12:51 pm
- Forum: American Sterling & Coin Silver - Single Image
- Topic: Date Mark W
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2013
Re: Date Mark W
There is no date mark, it's just one of Watson's trademarks: https://www.925-1000.com/americansilver_W2.html
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- Wed Dec 28, 2022 3:37 pm
- Forum: Silverplate Trademarks - Worldwide
- Topic: Help identify silver mark
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1129
Re: Help identify silver mark
Please post all marks found on this piece.
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- Mon Dec 26, 2022 9:17 am
- Forum: Scandinavian Silver
- Topic: 830S, unknown mark, probably Norway
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3051
Re: 830S, unknown mark, probably Norway
Please see this old thread with information from Tosten that answered questions I'd had - hadn't seen that Trev added more earlier this year: viewtopic.php?t=15599
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- Mon Dec 26, 2022 9:03 am
- Forum: Silverplate Trademarks - Worldwide
- Topic: Thorvald Marthinsen?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1406
Re: Thorvald Marthinsen?
The spoon is the Th. Olsens silverplate pattern 'Korall' (Coral) - one of the patterns I've seen with plating as low as 20 gram.
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- Tue Dec 20, 2022 6:39 am
- Forum: Scandinavian Silver
- Topic: 830S, unknown mark, probably Norway
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3051
Re: 830S, unknown mark, probably Norway
As suggested, most likely a Th. Olsens Eftf. mark - after Theodor Olsen died in 1890, his widow sold the business to brothers Magnus and Knut Aase in 1903/04, from the firm's founding in 1868 until 1903, their marks were initials and/or names (M&T OLSEN, Th.O, Th.Olsen, Theodor Olsen), but from ...
- Tue Dec 20, 2022 4:20 am
- Forum: Sterling Manufacturers ~ American after-1860
- Topic: Gorham? plate or sterling? pattern? tea set
- Replies: 31
- Views: 32274
Re: Gorham? plate or sterling? pattern? tea set
Hi Heritage - welcome to the forums. Some clarification, much provided by the late Sam Hough's Gorham research - the 'A' and 'B' prefixes on the Gorham production codes would be present on 'special orders' from the late 1870s, from 1888 in rectangles, with 'samples' codes in an oval, these marks cha...
- Sat Nov 26, 2022 6:43 pm
- Forum: Coin Silversmiths ~ American pre-1860
- Topic: E H & Co Pierced Serving Spoon
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2251
Re: E H & Co Pierced Serving Spoon
Will suggest the mark is 'HH&Co' for Henry Hebbard & Co. - he and John Polhamus patented the 'Oriental' pattern in 1855 (#D715)...
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- Tue Sep 06, 2022 3:02 pm
- Forum: Other Countries
- Topic: Unidentified Silver Server
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2492
Re: Unidentified Silver Server
Just my opinion, but the piece really doesn't look quite right to my eye, so posting some quick examples to illustrate what I might expect to see, but again, just my thinking... This 13 loth cake spade, with a die-stamped scene, shows the border following the shape of the blade all the way to the ha...
- Tue Sep 06, 2022 1:30 pm
- Forum: Other Countries
- Topic: Unidentified Silver Server
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2492
Re: Unidentified Silver Server
Like AG2012, I see issues here, and would also think it a marriage - the border on the blade doesn't follow the shape at the join to the handle, to my eye, that area appears to have been cut somewhat awkwardly, and the 'shoulders' (and rat-tail) on the handle look to be cut from the top of spoon bow...