help with marks on dinner forks please

[barbarrosa]

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hello , rooting around in the depths of my old cupboard cutlery drawer I found these old forks, they are stamped along the shank with 'Scotia silver' , is this Scottish silver and can anyone identify the other marks please ?Ive done a bit of a search but seem to have drawn a blank.
thanks very much

[dognose]

Hi,

Welcome to the Forum.

Your spoon was silver plated. During the latter years of the 19th century it became a popular sales ploy by the Birmingham and Sheffield plating firms to give their products exotic sounding names. These trade names suggested that the product was made from silver produced from famous silver strikes of the time. There are dozens of names to be found, including, Bengal, Nevada, Brazilian, Sydney, Potsi, Virginian, Japanese, etc., etc.

As for who used the trade name 'Scotia Silver', I can't help, but it's fairly often seen, and hopefully someone will be aware of the maker.

Trev.

[barbarrosa]

Hi trev,many thanks for your reply.