SILVER HALLMARKS PLEASE TRY AND HELP..

[briana5125]

I HAVE AN OLD SILVER SPOON, IT IS HEAVILY CARVED, IT HAS AN ELIZABETHAN STYLE QUEENS CROWN ON TOP, UNDERNEITH THAT IT HAS A LETTER E INSIDE A WREATH, THIS IS BEING HELD UP BY A GROTTESCUE FIGURE IT LOOKS LIKE A GOBLIN OR SOMETHING GOTHIC, ON THE BOWL OF THE SPOON THERE IS TWO HALLMARKS ONE IS WHAT LOOKS LIKE A HEAD NOT A BUST OF A WOMAN, AND THE OTHER LOOKS LIKE A PRANCING LION. THAT IS ALL ,ON THE BACK OF THE BOWL OF THE SPOON YOU CAN SEE WHERE THER MARKS WHERE STAMPED OR PUNCHED ON, CAN ANYONE HELP, I WILL POST SOME PICS WHEN I GET A BETTER CAMERA..

[byron mac donald]

Hi Briana-

Do any of the marks look anything like any of these?

http://www.925-1000.com/british_marks.html

[briana5125]

thanks for your reply , but no i cant see the marks in any of those, one of the marks looks like a head of a woman with long hair inside a box with the edges cut off, the other mark you have to turn the spoon upside down to see that its some kind of nieve prancing or walking animal inside a circle...

[briana5125]

The gotesque figure i was mentioning on the spoon could just be a woman there is long hair at the back..

[briana5125]

the hallmark i stated as a head of a woman ,i think also looks like a head of a native american indian????

http://carlyoung.myphotoalbum.com

[kerangoumar]

the location of the marks suggests a Continental origin - perhaps Austrian? While this site's Austrian hallmark http://www.925-1000.com/foreign_marks.html shows the woman's head in a lobate punch, it has at other times been in a five- or six-sided mark that does resemble a box with the corners cut off

[2209patrick]

Hello.
Good work on posting the pictures.
Could you make a drawing of the head and animal marks, then take a picture of it?
We need to know which way the head and animal are facing, left or right.
Also need the shape of the cartouche (outline of the marks).

Pat.

[admin]

Hi,
I've handled a fair number of very similar spoons, all were either unmarked or, when marks were present, they were almost always Dutch pseudomarks or Hanau pseudomarks. The spoon is most likely late 19th or early 20th century and made for sale to the tourist market. Although this doesn't sound promising, some nice items were created in this genre.

Regards, Tom

[briana5125]

thanks for your input , the womans head is facing right, and its strange because you have to turn the spoon upside down to get a correct view of the lion but when you turn the spoon upside down the lion is facing right also..the lion looks very much like a dutch mark the administrator told me to look ...you have to look hard to see its a lion its very nieve stamping...

http://carlyoung.myphotoalbum.com
please check my photo album i have drawn a scetch of the hallmarks...

[kerangoumar]

well, that is not Austrian but I have to agree with you that it resembles a stylized American Indian!