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I don't hold out much hope anyone knows the maker of this spoon as the maker's mark is not fully struck. But the rest of the marks are for Amsterdam 1699. https://i.postimg.cc/0y6fnKZv/IMG-4845.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/ZKsH6x8j/IMG-4846.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/Z51LMYDd/IMG-4847.jpg https://i.postim...

Hi, it's been a while but I have a couple of spoons that I need a little help with. This spoon I believe comes from Friesland as it only has the makers mark. The mark looks like the mark for Sneek silversmith of Jan Jansen Olthof but it does not quite match the mark in the book. I am also not used t...

Can you please show more? Its very difficult to help you with just these pictures

the piece is not 18th century but c.1820-1860

definitely not the style of the dress because I don't know enough about that but the style of the piece and the method of marking were common in the Baltics.

I think your piece is Scandanavian or from some other Baltic nation. piece looks fine to me

Thanks Wev. I was hoping you would chime in. I had a feeling these would probably languish under the 'unknown makers' category. I figured they were too old to be Colemans as well (though I am always on the lookout for early new jersey Silversmiths).I had no idea you had started a new page. I will be...

I recently acquired this fun set of 4 shellback tablespoons. They are most likely signed N dot C but possible N dot G or even possible, but less likely D dot N. The seller was in Pennsylvania and I know sometimes these things don't travel too far. If anyone has seen this mark before I would be grate...

I am not sure who the maker is but I a fairly certain the fork comes from Braga Portugal. If anyone has any info on Portugues makers I would be grateful https://i.postimg.cc/R0xvfR0W/IMG-5299.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/R0xvfR0W/IMG-5299.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/NjmcgHxB/IMG-5306.jpg https://i.postimg....

Well I am glad nobody took me up on either of my bets because I stand corrected. Cheryl is definitely right.

Buff the whole thing and see if it changes. I've never seen 'Gorham & Co' on anything but silver plate. Most old pieces of Gorham Coin silver would usually have the Gorham logo (The lion, anchor and the G) only, later they would also add Coin or Sterling. But just because I haven't seen it does ...

This piece is definitely, bet my life, silver plated. You can see the base metal (which looks like brass or some sort of alloy) in all the areas that were regularly exposed to mustard (or whatever condiment it was used to serve)

I don't have much hope anyone will recognize this maker but it is my first English seal top spoon. The finial is pinprick engraved S*S over I*A over 1651. It is only marked on the inside of the bowl. and the spoon measures about 7.5" long. https://i.postimg.cc/QMWCmbzR/IMG-3176.jpg https://i.po...

If you are referring to the Dish Peter posted, it was listed at the Auction House ' Drouot' which is the French auction house Hotel Drouot, the auction ended last year. I cannot find another one of these dishes except for that one and this one (where even the markings look to be identically placed)....

Auction houses get things wrong. Sometimes they don't even have silver experts on staff. I have followed Drouot via their app for a few years and they often get Non-French silver identifications wrong. Just like Bukowskis often gets anything but Scandanavian silver wrong. I recently made a friend in...

It looks to me that that is not a similar dish but the exact same one. I see it was auctioned on Drouot a year ago. If they are indeed different dishes than yes, they are probably Hanau but even hand crafted Hanau pieces will not be exactly the same. Also none of the Hanau marks I have seen are dead...

Well, I am going to be the dissenting opinion here but I believe it is old. I can't make out the makers mark but the Augsburg mark looks good. The style of the dish also looks correct for 1660-1720 era. I don't have it in hand so I can't be 100% certain but if I saw it I would have snatched it up.

It's beautiful. is it something you acquired recently?

Here are some better pics of the spoon just because. To answer the question about how they put the rim around the shell, I think they left flaps of silver 'open', dropped the shell in, and then bent the flaps over the shell and thensoldered it. you can see the solder lines every 3/4 of inch around i...

that would explain why I was the only one bidding, lol. Thanks Peter. In the meanwhile, I'll just enjoy it as a neat piece.