Reed & Barton Teaspoon - Pattern, Year & Composition help

[mishanne]

Hi!

I have a Reed & Barton teaspoon and I haven't been able to find the pattern name, the year of fabrication and I'm not entirely sure if its silverplated or not (so, if this is posted in the wrong section, I wasn't aware of it). Any help will be appreciated.

[mishanne]

Has anyone found anything yet?

[silverport]

Reed & Barton still existing.

Hello »mishanne«

Here you could find some informations on »date« marks: http://www.925-1000.com/RB_Date_Code.html

For your couriosity, here you could see some elder and old advertisings, with objects of hollowware and flatware:
viewtopic.php?f=38&t=21470

But you could take also a direct contact to »Reed & Barton«: http://www.reedandbarton.com/

Another possibility is, look in »Replacements«: http://www.replacements.com/mfghist/reedbart.htm

I hope that this brief answer would help you a little bit.

Kind regards silverport

[silverly]

Hello, I was out of town when you initially made this post, and I just back home to my meager references last week. So I can add that your spoon is silverplate and was introduced in 1920 with the name Clovelly.

[dognose]

I have the introduction as 1915, unless there was a delay for some reason?


Reed & Barton - New York - 1915

Trev.

[silverly]

My year was taken from a Tere Hagan identification and value guide. I'll go with the advertisement. Thanks, Trev.

[mishanne]

Thanks so much for your help, guys!

[silverly]

I haven't looked into this to any extent but maybe the difference in the year Tere Hagan gives and the year of the advertisement is because the piece in this topic is silverplate?

The Tere Hagan listing for Rogers Bros Gothic pattern has a disparity in the introduction date too. On the surface I've never seen too much reason to doubt Tere Hagan's information. I don't know. Silverplate is something I don't pay too much attention to.

[dognose]

Hi Pat,

I'm not sure about 1915 prices, would $6 for half a dozen spoons relate to silver or silverplate?

Regards Trev.

[silverly]

I think silver. This could have been the offer to get someone started, and then the price went up from there?

[mishanne]

So, this means that my teaspoon could be SILVER instead of SILVERPLATE?

[silverly]

Sadly no. There is a rule of thumb that I think works pretty well especially for twentieth century silver in America. If it doesn't say sterling, it's not.