Postby pebe » Sat Jul 18, 2020 10:31 am
Apologies if a new user raising an old thread from the dead is frowned upon in these parts, but, just for posterity - or rather for any researchers who may land on this thread in future, I wish to offer (having rifled through hundreds of Danish silverplate items over the years) that I have never seen the Danish two towers mark (to-tårne) conjoined with something else as one mark.
For me, in this case, the whole mark is something else, but the straw is more likely plated than not - it certainly looks like some brassy material has worn through in three or four places.
One of my early finds in Denmark was a straw spoon marked 800 and that took on a distinctly brassy tone after a polish :-)