Early PG Marked Serving Spoon

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Early PG Marked Serving Spoon

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This is an interesting one, and I would appreciate some help. This spoon appears to be colonial American coin silver but it has a German engraving from 1900. Hallmarked "PG" with hand engraved "Firm An Jenken V: Tante Reÿer." Could it also be German? Please help me find the maker! 2oz

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It's definitely not American.
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wev wrote:It's definitely not American.
May I ask how you know? I want to learn what you know. Thanks!
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Overall proportions; bowl shape and decoration; handle shape; script in stipple engraving. All very typical German/Dutch/Scandinavian attributes that are not found on US silver.
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wev wrote:Overall proportions; bowl shape and decoration; handle shape; script in stipple engraving. All very typical German/Dutch/Scandinavian attributes that are not found on US silver.
Thank you! Would you feel comfortable estimating an age of the piece?
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Until you get a translation of the engraving, it migh be hard to go much further. You seem to have a faint frontal spine here which was noted occuring on some other spoons (earlier, but similar idea) and can be found covered here: viewtopic.php?f=47&t=60017&p=199364&hil ... c0#p199364

Perhaps try the search function using stipple, pricked, prickings or spine to lead you to some other interesting spoons. (Maybe Norske too.) You may see Trondheim come up but can't jump to any conclusion with what is here. And of course the double stamped ones are just a repetition of the single maker mark, for whatever reason they found needed in those days. At any rate, you may find stuff buried in old threads that people have forgotten about.
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The stipple engraving reads; Zum Andenken v. (von) Jante Reijer 1900 which translates German to English; In Memory of Jante
Reijer 1900


Perhaps of interest;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_mi ... _Schleswig

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Could it be
Tante Reijer i.e aunt Reijer ?
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I first thought Tante too but believe the first letter to be a J with scratch. Jante is a maiden name, sometimes a boys name. It derived from the bibical name Johannes .

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Re: Early PG Marked Serving Spoon

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Yes, more likely.
There is definitely a scratch.
Best
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The inscription reads "Zum Andenken v.(on) Tante B(R)eyer". "As a souvenir (or in memory) of aunt B(R)eyer".
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Without town mark it is nearly impossible to identify the silversmith because there were many with the initials CG.
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For PG I did not find a silversmith. Perhaps Theoderich knows.
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oel wrote:Image

The stipple engraving reads; Zum Andenken v. (von) Jante Reijer 1900 which translates German to English; In Memory of Jante
Reijer 1900


Perhaps of interest;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_mi ... _Schleswig

Peter.
I am so very thankful for all the assistance with this. Although I was hoping it would be American Coin Silver, I am still happy. I would love to know an age and a maker, though reading the comments here I am seeing that it is unlikely. I just wanted to say thank you again to everyone who submitted thoughts!
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Re: Early PG Marked Serving Spoon

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Just tossing in another thread from the wayback machine which covered prickings or prik engravings as well as marking styles as related to inquiry about spoons [with only dual stamped (maker) marks in that case] : viewtopic.php?f=47&t=23848&p=57450&hili ... de3#p57450
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