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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!

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.

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

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;

but style of spoon - I would say Biedermeier.
That is 1840 onwards

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