Silver spoons - help with marks and History please

[Neil Hamilton]

Hi, recently purchased lined box containing 12 teaspoons and sugar tongs all with swastika as per photos. Inside of plush box marked R.L.Christie, Watchmaker/Jeweller, Edinburgh. I assume the mark on the spoon will be Christies initials. Can you help with date and where made. Is it likely the spoons were sold as a plain set and the swastikas cut in later or would they have been made like this. In reality, they look nicely done and not as rough as they seem in the enalrged photo..Thanks..Neil




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[Granmaa]

The spoons were assayed in London 1921. I don't know if the swastika was cut in later, but here is something about the symbol you may find interesting. The dates are suspiciously close.

In 1920, Adolf Hitler decided that the Nazi Party needed its own insignia and flag. For Hitler, the new flag had to be "a symbol of our own struggle" as well as "highly effective as a poster." (Mein Kampf, pg. 495)

On August 7, 1920, at the Salzburg Congress, this flag became the official emblem of the Nazi Party.

Miles
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[georgiansilver]

Pre-Nazi days..... the swatika was a sign of friendship and appears in many forms on jewellery in the early 20th century.
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[dognose]

I have noted several pieces of jewellery, charms etc. from the 1915-25 period that display the swastika usually assayed in Chester. I seem to remember that during the First World War it was The emblem of the Cheshire Regiment. regards Trev.
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