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by dragonflywink
Wed Mar 08, 2023 1:01 pm
Forum: Sterling Manufacturers ~ American after-1860
Topic: Medallion Spoon Trademark / Pseudo Hallmark Identification
Replies: 10
Views: 2362

Re: Medallion Spoon Trademark / Pseudo Hallmark Identification

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
by dragonflywink
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...
by dragonflywink
Sat Feb 18, 2023 5:24 pm
Forum: Mystery Objects
Topic: Mystery Item
Replies: 9
Views: 4226

Re: Mystery Item

Would guess the manufacturer intended your stopper for a piece either silver or with a silver mouth - the one shown below likely intended for a piece with a glass mouth:

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~Cheryl
by dragonflywink
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...

~Cheryl
by dragonflywink
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...
by dragonflywink
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.

~Cheryl
by dragonflywink
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...
by dragonflywink
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...
by dragonflywink
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...
by dragonflywink
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.

~Cheryl
by dragonflywink
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

~Cheryl
by dragonflywink
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.

~Cheryl
by dragonflywink
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

~Cheryl
by dragonflywink
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.

~Cheryl
by dragonflywink
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 ...
by dragonflywink
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...
by dragonflywink
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)...

~Cheryl
by dragonflywink
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...
by dragonflywink
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...

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