Help with sugar caster? :0)

[SusanWhite]

Hi, Everybody!

We have what I think is a sugar caster, maker unknown. I looked under the unlettered and difficult marks section and couldn't find this mark. Getting a good photo of it is mighty difficult, so what I've put up is the best I could get. Under the loop, it looks almost like some kind of sword, but not really because there appear to be "balls' at the ends where the point ought to be....

Anyway, any help and insight would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Sincerely,
Susan

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[dragonflywink]

Wow! I just can't seem to make out the mark at all. Ran through a couple of pattern books rather quickly, didn't find it, entirely possible that it's not a line pattern. If it's somewhere around 4-1/2 to 6 inches, would be a bon-bon/nut spoon, a sugar sifter would have a series of holes or pierced openings across the entire bowl. Pretty piece.

Cheryl ;o)

[admin]

I think it is an R. Blackinton & Co. mark. See their second example here -> American Marks 2
Regards, Tom

[SusanWhite]

Dear Cheryl and Tom,

Many thanks for your help! You're right, Cheryl, it is a bon bon/nut spoon and Tom, you are amazing, too!! That is exactly the right mark. I am really impressed with everyone's ability to figure this stuff out....

Thank you, thank you!

Sincerely,
Susan