Shell Teaspoons

[bstaunto]

Hi everyone,

Well after 0/3 in my last posts, hopefully someone can help me with this one!

These are some teaspoons I recently acquired. As you can see, they have the leopards head, kings head and then a strange third mark (maybe a bird?). I assume they must be colonial, but can't find anything similiar anywhere.

Any help is appreciated,

Ben

[dognose]

Hi Ben,

If you use the seach facility in this forum, using the word 'eagle', it should produce some thoughts on this mark.

Trev.

[SilverSurfer]

The marks on your spoons appear to be pseudo-hallmarks. Here are some links to a couple of threads addressing this:

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19489&p=44645&hilit=pseudo+hallmarks#p44645

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21200&p=49346&hilit=pseudo+hallmarks#p49346

Though there is an amazing amount of American pseudo-hallmarked coin silverware running about, there is very little information associating these oft recurrent sets of marks to specific manufacturers. I have no idea as to whether there were also such markings done where you are located. Best guess is that the pieces are American coin silver (~.900 fine) made in sometime the first half of the nineteenth century by an as yet unidentified maker.

SS

[bstaunto]

Thanks guys. No luck. But we'll see!