Old Plated Christofle Spoon

[JanGroen]

Good evening
This is my saddest piece of silver in my collection. It is (was) a 28cm Christofle plated spoon that clearly had a full live. I am trying to find out a little more about it. Things like pattern, age and use. The marks are very worn and I don't want to destroy it further trying to clean it.
Groete
Jannie

[JanGroen]

Good evening
Could it be correct that mark in the diamond be the date for 1847? Did not know silver-plating existed that far back.

Jannie

[dognose]

Hi Jannie,

The numerals in the lozenge would indicate the thickness of the plating.

See: http://www.925-1000.com/a_christofle.html

Trev.

[JanGroen]

Hi Jannie,

The numerals in the lozenge would indicate the thickness of the plating.

See: http://www.925-1000.com/a_christofle.html

Trev.

Good evening

I read on another site that they are date letters starting fro 1844. The plating thickness are written in the mark in oval with the scales. Here is the link.
http://www.ascasonline.org/ARTICOLOMARZ180.html

Jannie

[dognose]

Hi Jannie,

Does your oval mark contain any numerals?

Trev.

[JanGroen]

Hi Jannie,

Does your oval mark contain any numerals?

Trev.

The mark is too worn down. The spoon is made out of brass and the website mention that pre 1859 they used brass. After that they used another alloy lighter in colour.
The date letters from 1844 till 1859 were lozenges after that it was squars. The date letters makes more sence than the plating thickness theory...
Will check for more info.

Jannie

[Traintime]

That was a rather interesting link to an ASCAS article and for purposes of aiding search engines we might note this as " old Silverplate mark variants for Christofle, Halphen, and Alfenide with date code symbols " located here: http://www.ascasonline.org/ARTICOLOMARZ180.html

If search engines can't pick up some part of that we might as well all just pack up and go on vacation!