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Great stuff, cheers Trev. Chalk that up as your good deed for the day.
Kind regards, Walt.

G'day all.
My best guess is this vesta came into existence in Birmingham in 1919, but it may have been London 1915. (If London, apologies for posting it in the Birmingam thread).
So not only are the date and Assay office in question, but because things have a habit of occurring in threes, so is the ...

Cheers Phil,

Yes, given the time frame and a bit of judicious, good old fashion deduction, there seems to be no better candidate.
I'll close the book on this one then, thank you for your time.

Walt.

Hey Fishless,

Cheers for having a go.
I just had a look at https://www.silvercollection.it/ENGLABARNARD.html which shows quite a few examples of Barnard & Sons marks but nothing jumped out.
Since you mention you're a bit partial to the mystery inherent in rubbed maker's marks, check out the salt in ...

Greetings again, all.

Here we have a Sterling Silver Salt, hallmarked for London, 1783. This and the Hastings spoon I previously posted about are currently the only two pieces in my (very limited) collection who's makers I can't satisfactorily nail down.
There's precious little to go on here, but I ...

Cheers, Phil.

..And here was me thinking St. George had the monopoly on slaying dragons..
Yes, I looked at the mark from every which way, but like a piece of modern art, there's no easy way to tell which way is up.
While often oriented to conform with the other marks it's not always the case, as ...

Greetings all.
Allow me to introduce what I understand to be a Souvenir Spoon from Hastings, England and Hallmarked for Sterling, London, 1905.
It weighs 50.7g and is 110mm or 4 1/2" in length with the bowl, a pseudo 'Angel' coin, being 33mm or 1 3/8" dia.

https://i.imgur.com/h4DbO2y.png

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