George Carleton Spoons / 1810 ? / More Info.

[kenscott]

Here are the two Carleton spoons from the $12 find I mentioned in another post.

All I know is that George Carleton evidently worked in New York, NY around 1810. More information on this silversmith is appreciated.

[dognose]

Hi,

That's likely to be James Hazen Carleton (b.1818, d.1893), who worked at Haverhill, Massachusetts.

Trev.

[JLDoggett]

Trev beat me to the post. Yes those were made in Haverhill around the mid-1800.

[kenscott]

Thanks for the information. I think I may keep one of these in my fledgling collection.

Still cannot believe how I found these.

Thanks again everyone.

[kenscott]

BTW, seeing he was a jeweler as well, is it likely these spoons are actually sterling instead of coin?

[wev]

No. Simply being a jeweler has no bearing on the subject.

[kenscott]

Okay, I will stay with them being coin then. The have the characteristics of coin.

Short of one of those x-ray guns it would be hard to tell the difference.

[JLDoggett]

In that time period something made of sterling quality would have commanded such a premium that no one would have bought it unless it had the cache of being stamped sterling. In my 40+ years in the the trade I have seen very few (less than 10) examples of spoons being marked sterling and fewer that actually were.

[kenscott]

When did it become common place in America to use the Sterling mark?