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Sterling serving spoon -- Libby?

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Sterling serving spoon -- Libby?

Postby pbick » Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:23 pm

Could not find these marks on 2 spoons referenced anywhere
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Re: Sterling serving spoon -- Libby?

Postby pbick » Tue Mar 23, 2021 5:06 pm

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Re: Sterling serving spoon -- Libby?

Postby Traintime » Wed Mar 24, 2021 8:51 am

Libby, J. G. L. Boston , Mass. 1820-1846 (Mark 1 example here) Source page 130 of Handbook of American SILVER and PEWTER MARKS by C. Jordan Thorn, Tudor Publishing Company, NY, 1949.
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Re: Sterling serving spoon -- Libby?

Postby dognose » Wed Mar 24, 2021 9:39 am

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J.G.L. Libby - Boston, Mass. - 1833

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Re: Sterling serving spoon -- Libby?

Postby silverly » Wed Mar 24, 2021 11:59 am

Family members identify this gentleman as Jacob George Lewis Libby who was born in London on 22 April 1797 and died in Boston on 4 March 1846.
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Re: Sterling serving spoon -- Libby?

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Re: Sterling serving spoon -- Libby?

Postby pbick » Sun Mar 28, 2021 4:39 pm

Thank you all
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