Possible Stolberg Wernigerode 12 Loth Spoon

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Possible Stolberg Wernigerode 12 Loth Spoon

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Please help me identify this spoon. This is an 8 1/2" long silver spoon. It is marked with the number 12, and an elk or stag and two curved lines. Does the #12 mean that this was made in Prussia or Germany in the 18th and 19th century and it is made of .750 silver. Does the elk represent the city of Stolberg-Wernigerode? And does anyone know what the two curved lines mean? Thank you for your help!

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Re: Possible Stolberg Wernigerode 12 Loth Spoon

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Hallo agsearch
it is an interesting mark, but I think it is not Wenigerode.
It looks more like Grodno or Hirschberg, but I am not sure.
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Re: Possible Stolberg Wernigerode 12 Loth Spoon

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Thank you Theoderich for your quick reply and for the information.
I have the "Old Silver" book which shows a mark like the stag, elk mark but it states that this is from Stolberg-Wernigerode and from the 18th century.
I have no knowledge of the towns, cities or provenances that you speak of = Grodno or Hirscheberg.
Can you direct me to see some of their marks?
Or can you tell me that I am correct that this is Prussian or German? Or....
Made in the 1700's?
750 Loth Siver?
Kind Regards and thanks for sharing!
KT
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Re: Possible Stolberg Wernigerode 12 Loth Spoon

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Ok agsearch

the Problem ist, that my Marks from Wernigerode and Stolberg are about from 1800.
In this time Wernigerode hat a Stag, a fisch a yearsletter, a 12 -lothmark and a makersmark

Wernigerode
1802
http://silberpunze.piranho.de/Silber/Pu ... an_Berling(er" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;).JPG
1822
http://silberpunze.piranho.de/Silber/Pu ... g_Pape.JPG" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Stolberg
1800
http://silberpunze.piranho.de/Silber/Pu ... tfuchs.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

(Ref. Wolfgang Scheffler Goldschmiede Mittel- und Nordostdeutschlands
von Wernigerode bis Lauenburg in Pommern
Daten Werke Zeichen 1980 Walter de Gruyter - Berlin - New York )


Grodno
ca. 1800
http://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=9800" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://silberpunze.piranho.de/Silber/Punzen/Grodno(Litauen" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)_1800_Jacob_Diedrich_Dahm.JPG

Hirschberg (pl. Jelenia Góra)
there I have only older marks - looks very different from the marks in the 19. century.
ca. 1730
http://silberpunze.piranho.de/Silber/Pu ... illich.JPG" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Possible Stolberg Wernigerode 12 Loth Spoon

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but style of spoon - I would say Biedermeier.
That is 1840 onwards
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Re: Possible Stolberg Wernigerode 12 Loth Spoon

Post by agsearch »

Thank you both for your information and insight into the origin of my spoon.
Some pictures I could access and some sites said that the pictures "did not exist" but I still received some very relevant information about the spoon and the period of time from which it was made.
So thanks again!
agsearch
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