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Hi everyone. I have a folding spoon that I think is sterling but because I can't make out the two marks I'm putting this question under silverplate. I had to take separate pictures of the marks because they aren't located together. Thank you in advance for any help.

This is silver from Augsburg. Set picture of item here.
http://www.925-1000.com/Fgerman_marks_b1884.html

Thank you very much. Wow- I never would have found that. After I saw that my post had been moved from silverplate to this forum, I searched for the marks under all the countries in this category. Never would I have seen a pineapple!

I followed your link and read a bit about the marks. In 1734 a letter was added under the pineapple to indicate date. What letter am I looking at? the letter "c" or lowercase "n" or..?

I read about the zickzack line that until now I thought was odd. It has to do with silver assaying but I'm not understanding yet what that means in terms of silver content. The other mark on the spoon looked like two letters, maybe "SB" but after looking at the top of the German city marks, I'm wondering if I'm not looking at letters but numbers like something then "3" having to do with the silver content? I'm not sure what I need to understand about the marks in order to at least date this spoon.

I so much appreciate your help. Thank you.

Thanks for the link help. Actually I wanted to see a picture of item.
Iys the pineapple and it is silver. Iy is 2 letters not numbers. And its masters mark.
The zig zag line was made when testing silver contenth. It is a sample taken from the silver - its a sampel for test. It wouls most likely be 12lødig silver.
Sorry but dont know master.

leter could also be r

Thank you again for your reply. I'm sorry but I'm not following what you're seeing. You see the letters "ly" in which picture? I see letters that look something like SB but you see LY and I'm wondering how we can be so far apart..lol

Hose_dk wrote: Iy is 2 letters not numbers. And its masters mark.

ly is a misspell "It's 2 letters not numbers......" was what I would write but hit other buttons.
(I speak danish not english - english is not my natural language)

The picture I speek of is a picture of the item. We would like to see it in full.

Thank you. This is either a travel spoon or medicine spoon.

Samuel Bardet

D = 1787-1789

That was incredibly helpful. Thank you, Theoderich. Thank you both.