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Hello, marks on a spoon. It looks like "V.T.A" to me. More research is needed here? Retailers?



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Hello, no guarantee but I think there is a key in this corroded mark and maybe a "K". Consider "Keystone Silver Co" of Philadelphia.
A near image is shown in out silverplate section.

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Hello, you have got your identification exactly correct for the fork. There is can be a little variation in the marks made by the various hallmark punches as they get repeatedly used. If you think about it a newly made punch is likely to give a much more crisp mark than 1 having been used numerous t...

Hello, I saw an image of a North American spoon on line with an "A1" mark on. This mark, regularly seen with British electroplated cutlery, stimulated my interest and lead me to look for more info. I first looked on our own forum and all I found was a reference for 1901 of "H.Z. Rhoad...

Hello again, I rechecked my some of my images and found this one not exactly the same as your image. Good really though as it makes the the possible identification for your item. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51633186427_c3f885f219_b.jpg I have identified of this mark as Broadhead & Atkin ...

Hello SkyeNeko, this is a electroplated item as you may guess as your post is now in with the silver plate posts. There is no silver guarantee mark to suggest it being solid silver. The "S" mark is more likely to indicate manufacture by a Sheffield based electroplating concern. I have an i...

Hello, quite a while ago I saved an image of some manufacturer's marks on a electroplated spoon. There appeared a roughly circular impressed mark plus "Huttons.Sheffield " over "Alaska Silver". "Huttons" could have been W.Hutton (& Sons Ltd) a large silver and elect...

Hello, I have an image to add to this old post. It was snapped it at a recent auction where I was a not very close under bidder. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51479185177_40b02196f8_c.jpg I had in the back of my mind that it may not be "right" with the its lack of "silver contro...

Hello, surprisingly, I just bought myself a few more spoons. They came from an auction house that unlike many, had good hallmark images. The spoons were described as probably by "Thomas Watson" of Newcastle and I do not think many would disagree with that, even with the rubbed marks. The d...

Hello again Guido, below is the reference from our website, relating to "P Kleemo" of Sidney and the advert from 1933 proclaiming "sole agents for Walter Oxley, Queens Road, Sheffield". The ad underlines that Oxley did not just do cutlery. https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic...

Hello Guildo. it looks like there could be information to be found in the "Sheffield Indexers" and some commercial dictionaries. Below are some entries I found quickly in the "Indexers". Oxley, Walter (, table cutlery manufacturer). Address: 154a Fitzwilliam street; h, 133 Machon...

Hello, I have some images that I feel could be useful additions to this post. Firstly there is an image from another post in this Newcastle section of the Forum, interestingly, not relating to any of the makers mentioned by Dognose previously. https://i.postimg.cc/fbhh8P4T/49-E84048-F33-F-4-AB0-A58-...

Thank you Trev for your reply and images. Interesting thoughts about the spoon possibly being made in the West Indies. Do keep speculating though, it has become a much better spoon now.

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Hello, I recently got hold of the 4 inch (10 centimetres) long salt type spoon shown below. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51137104660_b53fbb823f_c.jpg It lacks both a date letter mark and "Guild" mark but was indicated as a London made spoon, possibly by the "Philip Norman"...

Hello, from "silvermakersmarks" the 1825 date letter is an option with a lower case "b". Is not the mark a crowned upper case "B"? It still does not seem straight forward as the next "B" that is in Victoria's reign is 1845. That said the illustrated mark on &q...

Thank you Qrt.S for your answer to my query and the added information. Looks like my guess at the date was at least in the right century. If Georg F. A. Pefferkorn was the last alderman for the Trondheim laugh in 1869 does that imply the flower head mark would not have been used after 1870 as there ...

Hello, I saw an interesting teaspoon on line that I thought could be a low cost educational project for me. I knew the "13 1/2 " mark it carried indicated likely "Germano-Nordic" origin. There was a maker's mark, "GP" , but simple checking on line did not suggest an a s...

I have found my images missing from the old post. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51022203038_7f1282cd39_z.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51023035202_270c1588df_z.jpg The "J+A" mark looks like a silversmith's mark but with a "Metal Blanc" mark. Can anyone explain the...

Hello, I could be repeating the question with this pair of tongs. However I am fairly confident that these tongs carry an earlier Joseph Hicks mark and date circa 1790 (after the 1875 incuse duty mark but before the indented 1797 duty mark). https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51026166748_74890e4fe5...

Hello Stijn, are you able to upload a better magnified image of the marks. I zoomed your image up a little and there appears to be a "MB" in a rectangle. French for "white metal" unless someone else has any ideas? Then there is a lozenge mark that I can only see clearly as a &quo...