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The dog's head crest and the motto Denique Coelum is identified by Fairbairn's Book of Crests to Melville family (apparently different branches with various spellings but several have used dog's head as crest). They seem to be from Scotland but maybe some had an Irish connection. See: https ...

I can't help with the age/origin of the plate but the picture depicts Jesus and is more specifically called Arma Christi or the instruments of the passion. For more information see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arma_Christi

Just curious
What does ALOS mean in the cartouche?
I didn't find anything in the dictionary
Amena


Could be a corrupt conjugation of a Latin verb alere (to nourish). Not sure which would be the correct one though. The heraldic achievement isn’t that convincing either so one would expect bad ...

The crown above the coat of arms tells that it belongs to an untitled noble (Adel) family (so not counts of barons etc.) which makes it rather difficult to identify the family. The spoon is German so the best assumption would be that the family is too so if you have time and energy you could browse ...

I think it's GGL for Georg Gleerup, Copenhagen 1950-60, with Swedish import marks.

I don't think the rooster has anything to do with France. It's stands on a torse (heraldic term for a twisted fabric roll) so it's a crest. Crests were used by British families who were granted coat of arms so if you know the name of the original owner's family it might be possible to find it in ...

Three crowns in oval is the Swedish import mark so the item was imported into Sweden and S means that it’s silver. Are there any other marks? There seems to be something in the middle of the 4th picture but is it just a scratch or a reflection?

I agree. Nothing indicates Russia. The carving could depict Holy Roman Emperor Charles V during his coronation procession in Bologna in 1530 and the person wearing a mitre could be pope Clement VII (one of the first bearded popes). This was the last time the pope crowned an emperor in Italy. I ...

I don't see any Swedish import marks here unless. There should be an oval three crowns' mark. The oval leaf mark looks like a thistle which would indicate Scotland and MAB looks more like MAH to me.

Yes, it's Helsinki 1888. PA is Petter Airaksinen (1871-1898) who was a subcontractor for RM Otto Roland Mellin (1860-1907).

London 1859 (Queen Victoria's head and d). As far as I can see the maker's marks is GA for George William Adams.

I couldn't find a silversmith in Hudiksvall with initials CI or like that and the goat's head doesn't really look like the town marks of Hudiksvall. I don't know why anyone would imitate Hudiksvall's mark because it's not that well known.

As a general note the lack of other Swedish hallmarks wouldn ...

I think I could have found a match. The coat of arms with leopard heads could be for the family de Frémont: D'azur à trois têtes de léopard d'or. When searching some information about the family I found some genealogy sites and found the following couple:

Antoine Nicolas Louis Charles (1762 - 1827 ...

I couldn't find any match when searching armorials of French dukes. Could the crown be that of a marquis instead? In that case there would be leaves alternating with clusters of three pearls. The coat of arms with three lion/leopard heads could be for the family Anzeray who held the title marquis de ...

Now the marks are very clear. It’s Hopeatakomo Oy (”silver forge limited company”), Helsinki.

The hallmarks are rather unclear, especially the first one which is probably the maker's mark. It looks like the crown has been struck twice and it might have distorted the maker's mark. 813H is for the fineness (H=hopea=silver), the next mark looks like a boat of Helsinki and the last one is the ...

The text reads "Help us, Holy Trinity" and it's the Holy Trinity that is depicted: God the Father, the Son (Jesus on the cross) and the Holy Spirit (dove). The original spoon was probably a baptismal spoon but this one is a reproduction.

C.G. Hallbergs Guldsmeds AB, Stockholm, Z7=1926.

The best match I could find is the coat of arms of Killigrew. Their baronetcy became extinct in 1705 but there probably were other untitled family members. And the second link shows the lion crest too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killigrew_baronets
https://shakespearereinvented.wordpress.com/2012 ...

Fairbairn's book of crests gives the following families: Baines, Bone, Dempster, Gall, Hodkinson, Small. Unless there are initials or any knowledge of the provenance of the item it's impossible to know the family in question.

See:

https://archive.org/details/fairbairnsbookof02fair/page/n295/mode ...