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- Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:44 am
- Forum: London Hallmarks
- Topic: help with a mote spoon
- Replies: 3
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I have now dug out my teaspoon - small Hanoverian with double drop. The RH is in a smallish punch as your mark must be to fit the stem of a mote spoon. I can't swear thay are the same mark because of the distortions of wear - we would need to be able to put the two side by side to judge definitively...
- Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:10 am
- Forum: London Hallmarks
- Topic: Apostle spoons mystery
- Replies: 5
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- Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:59 pm
- Forum: London Hallmarks
- Topic: help with a mote spoon
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2319
This won't be a lot of help. I have a Hanoverian teaspoon of the period with RH as the maker's mark. I will need to dig the spoon out to see how closely it matches your mark. There were too many RHs in Grimwade for me to identify mine confidently. My notes say it best matched Roger Hare - smallworke...
- Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:26 pm
- Forum: London Hallmarks
- Topic: Apostle spoons mystery
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4766
I am afraid this is a made-up spoon incorporating the stem from a Georgian spoon. It is not even an accurate copy of an in-period apostle spoon. The finial looks a bit like a seal-top (itself not original to the stem) with an apostle stuck on top of it. I would guess it was all put together in the 1...
- Tue Jan 26, 2010 8:18 pm
- Forum: Birmingham Hallmarks
- Topic: Hallmark discrepancy
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7139
- Tue Jan 26, 2010 7:34 am
- Forum: Birmingham Hallmarks
- Topic: Hallmark discrepancy
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7139
- Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:19 pm
- Forum: German Silver
- Topic: unknown mark on rat-tail spoon
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5761
- Sun Jan 17, 2010 8:46 am
- Forum: Birmingham Hallmarks
- Topic: Hallmark discrepancy
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7139
The three assay office marks are in a stub. There will have been a range of stubs for different sizes and types of silverware. I have always understood that variations in the orientation of the individual marks in a stub were a safeguard against fakery. If the marks from a smaller item were cut out ...
- Thu Jan 07, 2010 8:25 pm
- Forum: General Questions
- Topic: English trans. for the German mark called a"Tremulierst
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3386
- Fri Jan 01, 2010 9:06 am
- Forum: Family Crests
- Topic: One Spoon, Six Crests!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5356
- Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:23 pm
- Forum: Russian Silver
- Topic: Unidentified cigarette case III
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3250
- Sun Dec 13, 2009 7:43 pm
- Forum: London Hallmarks
- Topic: Help with Makers Mark ID Please London Silver
- Replies: 1
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- Fri Dec 11, 2009 1:22 pm
- Forum: Contributors' Notes
- Topic: C J Vander Ltd Workshops-- 1968
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2094
Re: welcome
Thanks Trev. I hadn't seen this. Think I may have spotted Alan in the workshop, if I am right about how he would have looked 40 years ago. The C J Vander inherited dies are now at Wakeley and Wheeler which has been spun off to continue as a maker at a small workshop in Essex. Jeff Francis is the spo...
- Tue Dec 01, 2009 6:45 am
- Forum: Mystery Objects
- Topic: What-is-it question.CLXVIII.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2926
- Mon Nov 30, 2009 12:49 pm
- Forum: German Silver
- Topic: 17th C German Augsburg Spoons
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4392
Theoderich drew my attention to this post since when I have been hoping somebody with better knowledge of early spoon styles in continental Europe might comment as I am afraid my thoughts might be disappointing. The spoons look to me very much like the sort of items made in Hanau and in the Netherla...