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Spoon with AR mark.
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 3:35 pm
by paulh
This is a simple Old English style tea spoon with the initials AR and a very dodgy looking duty mark.
My first thought was Alexander Rollo. Anyone have any other suggestions?
Paul.
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Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 5:00 pm
by 2209patrick
Hi Paul.
Maybe Adam Ross of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada ?
I'm thinking the 2nd drawing down in my scan.
Canadian silversmiths often used different psuedo marks during their history.
Pat.
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Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:39 am
by dognose
Just to add a little to Pat's information. The Incorparation of Edinburgh site has it that Adam Ross was apprenticed to William Marshall II in 1805, so if presuming he completed his term, then he must have departed to Halifax soon after.
Trev.
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Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:54 am
by paulh
Thanks gentlemen. An interesting idea. I had always thought it to be Scottish.
Paul
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Re: Spoon with AR mark.
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 9:31 am
by dognose
Another example of the work of Adam Ross.
Fiddle pattern dessert spoon, 7" (7.7cm) in length, weight 33 grams.
Trev.