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Either German or Danish. A child's spoon, engraved Sophie on the front and 22=1=06 on the back. The front bright cutting is very tight and well done. The spoon has a stamped bowl while the handle is hand forged length is 5 1/8"-13cm. Any suggestions of origion would be helpful, Thank you. http:...

Trev may have a point, if you look to the left side of the two-mark picture, there is a shadow that looks like a shallow curve, this could be the remains of the maker's mark. there is room between it and the city mark to have fitted the quality mark. However why would the soveriegn's head have been ...

This is a coin spoon marked C. Swift, but I can not fnd him listed in my reference materials. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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I need help with these 2 spoons, the mark is C&N very weakly stamped (10X loupe showed that it is not O&N). Does anyone recognise the maker? Other than size they are conpletely identical, the engraving matches some other spoons I have that were made in Newburyport, MA. Thank you. http://aycu...

You can see damage to the lower left hand edge of the channel. Most likely one stone came out and the others shifted and fell before the owner noticed.
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Stylisticly it is modern, within the past 20 years, a fairly common design, but not by any of the bigger Americain casting houses, they all mark their castings in the mould and typically most jewelers would not take the time to remove the marks. Unusual to have it set with semi-precious stone as the...

Citrine, most likely, and the zoning is a common tell-tale sign. Yellow sapphire would be more brilliant, especially with the baguettes (are half of them missing?). Topaz is to brittle to be channel set. Almost impossible to tell from a photograph.

The mark I do not recognise, sorry.
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Thank you for the information. I now have some points to continue my research.

This box is was acquired in Tehran a long time ago. It is four-inches square and stand one-inch high, weight is 9-ounces. The scene on the top is of ten scholars with books. Most of the surfaces are chassed, pricked, and punched in fairly fine detail. I am trying to identify the four marks on the bo...

I would call that a threaded cann. But I suspect that is more regional in name.
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Another: Florentine finish: an engraved finish applied with an engravers line graver that cuts two to twelve lines with each pass. The piece is engraved in one direction of parallel passes, the item is turned thirty-three to forty-five degrees and cross-engraved. A brush, would give a satin sinish a...

One other item. Your defination of bleeding bowl should include the following: Bleeding bowl: a piece of medical equipment use to measure the amount of blood lanced from a patient mistakenly undertaken to relieve fevers and “cure” other ailments. They are rare but I have handled several in silver (w...

Epergne: an ornate centerpiece consisting of a frame supporting dishes, vases, and/or candleholders in tiers around a central focal point (either a larger container or ornamental motif). Ferrule: The metal collar that joins a handle to a shaft, often found between a cane and its handle, also on para...

They were origionally sold as jade or emerald depending where they were bought, most were made in the 50's and later.

A golf scorekeeper... there are 18 holes. If so on hole 10 he is way over par!
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Baleen, the horny, tooth-like plates growing from the upper jaws of certain whales, allowing them to strain food from ocean water. Usually dark in colour Bezel, A solid or pierced metal band soldered on edge to a backing and bent inward to secure a stone cut en cabochon. Caster, an ornamental contai...

Tom, are you also collecting alternate maker's stamps? I have a few pieces that show stamp from your listed makers, but are different, ie. I have a large spoon by G.H.Whitford of Concord, NH, The G.H.Whitford mark is not shown on your list, I assume it is from the period of 1853 to 1856 when he had ...

I found this "Elisa Egalon, a Parisian jeweler in business at 14 rue Rambuteau, beginning 19 July 1889." the device between the 2 letters being a corperal's braid (though most detail is lost, I put it under my 20x diamond loupe, which showed the bottom edges to be finely scalloped, as in t...

Jeff, the G.W.Fairchild & Sons does appear to be the retailer's stamp. As for the shape being different it could either be a master butter, or a creamed cheese knife.
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Thank you Admin, I have bookmarked that site and will explore it, merci. Cheryl, that is as close a picture as my digital cemera will take the mark is tiny, it appears to be either E\/E or O\/E with the \/ section being a raised shape like an open parachute. Under 10X loupe it is hard to tell of the...