Help identifing a ladle/spoon

[LostNina]

I have looked in a few different places and I was unable to find
this pattern/manufacturer. I was hope'ing that someone here
might be able to help me out.

I am not sure how to post the images so I signed up for a website
and uploaded the three images of the Spoon/Ladle in question
there.
http://www.geocities.com/lostninaann/im ... nLadle.JPG



The writing on the back says :
B.F. Norris & CO.

As for the other mark I think it is the makers mark but I can't
really identify what it is. It looks like 3 people sitting on the ground.
For all I know it could be a lion. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

It is almost 13 inches long.

Thank you
Nina
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[wev]

The mark is too blurry to identify the actual maker, but the retailer was Benjamin Franklin Norris, a prosperous wholesale jeweler in Chicago IL. His son, Benjamin Jr, was better known as Frank Norris, one of the founding figures of American naturalism, a literary movement that flourished at the end of the nineteenth century and the start of the twentieth.
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[admin]

Hi,
It is the Alhambra pattern made by Whiting. Production on the pattern began around 1880. Lion is right, but the Whiting trademark appears, at least in the photo, to be chattered or slightly double stamped.
Regards, Tom

http://www.925-1000.com/american-mfg10.html
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[LostNina]

Wow! You guys are so quick. I didn't think I would ever find that out by myself. I even had 2 books out page by page but it wasn't listed. I think it's time to update my literary collection.

-Nina

Again thank you so much for all this information.
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