Help with F. J. Posey salt spoon, Coin?

[modemgirlz]

could someone please help me with this spoon, I would like to know the date, any info about the maker and is this coin silver, sterling, or other? Thank you for your help Kristina
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[wev]

Frederick J. Posey, working c 1820-1840 in Hagerstown MD and after that in Shepherdstown VA.
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[modemgirlz]

Thank you for your reply. You have been most helpful ... Kristina
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[silverly]

Frederick J. Posey, working c 1820-1840 in Hagerstown MD and after that in Shepherdstown VA.

Is there a reference for the 1820 to 1842 working period for this gentleman?
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[admin]

"Eighteen & Nineteenth Century Maryland Silver in the Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art" pub. 1975
Catalog gives these dates and illustrates mark.

Regards, Tom
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[wev]

Pleasants & Sills, Maryland Silversmiths
Cutten, Silversmiths of Virginia
Hagerstown marriage record to Elizabeth McCardle, 18 Dec 1839
Advertisement, Virginia Free Press, 7 Apr 1832 announcing his clock and watchmaking shop located in Daniel Entler's hotel, Shepherdstown
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[silverly]

Cutten's notes do not match his text. It is reasonable that he would have given the two events, marriage and advertising, chronologically. Or have you seen an actual Virginia Free Press article to the contrary?
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[wev]

I beg your pardon -- my typo, reproducing the same in Cutten's notes; it is 1842 not 1832.
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[silverly]

Again, do you have a reference for the 1820 to 1842 working period for this gentleman?
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[wev]

You have been given the three standard references. Do you have something to offer to the contrary, or is this just idle curiosity?
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[silverly]

I don't have anybody other than the gentleman that Cutten references with one obvious typo in his notes which does nothing to explain the 1820 year you have given for the beginning of Frederick's working period.

My question is not just idle. Where does the year 1820 fit into all this, and if it doesn't...
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[silverly]

Tom, I just noticed your response to my question. I apologize for overlooking it.
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[silverly]

Frederick J Posey who was born in New Hampshire in about 1817 is listed as a jeweler and silversmith in Hagerstown, Maryland in the 1850 through 1870 census's. He would not have been working in his own right much before 1836.
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