Hall & Elton.

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here is another spoon from another privy. I think this one was found with 1840s artifacts.

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Hall & Elton, Wallingford, Connecticut.
Founded in 1837 by Deacon Almer Hall and William Elton.
Originally produced German silver flatware.
They also made britannia spoons at least until 1875.
See Alpacca (nickel silver) and britannia metal here:
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By 1861 they were producing silverplated flatware.

In 1890 they were purchased by Maltby, Stevens & Curtis which in turn was purchased by the Watrous Mfg. Company.
In 1898 became part of the International Silver Company.
Don't know if International used the Hall & Elton trademark.

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From A Century of Service (1947) page 117: "During its program of enlargement, International Silver purchased a plant in western Wallingford on the shores of a large body of water formed by damming the historic Quinnipiac River. That body of water had become locally popular as Windemere Lake during the 1860's. Hall Elton & Co. had thrown a water-power dam across the river and commenced manufacturing large quantities of flatware. Several years later they moved their factory, lock, stock and barrel, farther down the river, where they had built a bigger and better dam.
By 1890 the Maltby, Stevens & Curtis Company, headed by Elizur Seneca Stevens, Chapman Maltby (Mr. Stevens' father-in-law), and John Curtis, had bought and occupied the old Hall, Elton & Co. plant and were manufacturing flatware for plating purposes, much as its predecessor, Maltby, Stevens & Company, had done at Birmingham, Connecticut. A large part of their output was silverplated by the Wm. Rogers Mfg. Co. of Hartford, Connecticut."

This of course raises the question of what the authors meant by "old plant"...the first location or second? Note that there is no indication that Hall & Elton was operating or sold in 1890...only a transfer of a plant. In addition, the book's charts indicate International absorbed "Hall Elton & Co. Wallingford 1837"...but this does not explain names of Hall & Elton, Hall-Elton Co., or any other variations that may turn up. I find no examples of Hall & Elton marks among the mark sample pages in the book...therefore, not likely used but they may have been forgotten by 1947(??).
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Additional entry from above source, page 130: after a fire in 1883 at the Shelton plant..." But because their plant was the chief source of supply for flatware which was silver-plated and sold by the Wm. Rogers Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Maltby, Steven & Curtis Company promptly moved to a Wallingford factory formerly used by Hall, Elton & Company. In 1890, seeking more factory room, they bought a plant which they substantially enlarged on the shore of what became Community Lake, in western Wallingford." That seems to imply Hall & Elton was long out of business, and presumably well before 1890!
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Third and last entry from above source, page 207: referencing David Stearns Stevens..."During the later 1840's that grandfather had, they said, worked in the Cowles spoon factory at Granby ("Spoonville"), and married Elizabeth Benjamin of the Spoonville neighborhood. Along about 1848 Grandfather Stevens had come to the Quinnie section of western Wallingford to run a flatware plant and gristmill with Robert Wallace. A few years later, when Robert Wallace had moved into Wallingford, Grandfather Stevens had purchased the Quinnie plant, mill and riparian rights, and manufactured many gross of flatware which he sold to Hall, Elton & Company--at that time one of the country's largest producers of flatware."
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Daily Snippet entry referencing Hall-Elton: viewtopic.php?f=38&t=36151&p=160926&hil ... on#p160926
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Another Daily Snippet entry alleging Hall & Elton trademark still in use in 1904(!!!): viewtopic.php?f=38&t=36151&p=118079&hil ... on#p118079
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Eywitness reference to useage of Hall, Elton & Co. plant by another party: viewtopic.php?f=38&t=39376&p=108897&hil ... on#p108897
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Link to sterlingflatwarefashions marks/bios indicating some difference between Hall & Elton (Geneva NY) and Hall, Elton & Co. (Wallingford): https://www.sterlingflatwarefashions.co ... /SPH1.html

Note these marks are sans-serif letters...a serif version exists.
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This site's entry for those firms: https://www.925-1000.com/silverplate_H.html
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Additional note: There are several surviving on-line discussions of the differences between the two Hall & Elton companies and the parties involved, all of which reads in a confusion of mark samples both serif and sans serif. Apparently WEV has done some work to sort out much of this and lists patterns and marks.
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