Pair of Warner Repousse Slat/Pepper shakers, any info about this maker?

[sansilver]

Hi,

I was wondering if anybody knew anything about where these were made. I couldn't find anything concrete. Thanks for looking.

[silverly]

Looks like Baltimore silver.

[dragonflywink]

As Silverly suggests, the '11-2', is a Baltimore quality mark - 11 ounces, 2 pennyweights of silver in 12 troy ounces, indicating 925/1000 silver (sterling), and the shakers are typical Baltimore repousse work. Went ahead and moved it to the coin section, because the system was pretty much out of use by the mid 1850s, though I seem to recall that one of the Warners, along with Samuel Kirk, continued use of the numbers. Not where I can check my meager references at the moment, hopefully someone will come along and ID your maker...

~Cheryl

[sansilver]

Thank you very much. Fantastic information, I never would have known.