This is a bit of a long shot but does anyone recognise this crest. It is on a silver knife by Greychev Bros. St. Petersburg c1900. The Cyrillic inscription translates to "Russian Fleet
Paul.
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- Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:22 am
- Forum: Family Crests
- Topic: Mystery Crest
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2514
- Sun Jul 30, 2023 11:45 am
- Forum: Irish Hallmarks
- Topic: Exporter and Importer
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10202
Exporter and Importer
Here is a strange thing which I came across recently. This is a "Glug Glug" decanter. So called because of the glugging sound it makes when being filled or emptied. It has nice set of Hukin & Heath marks for Birmingham 1928. It also has a set of Dublin import marks, also for Hukin &...
- Mon May 29, 2023 11:07 am
- Forum: Provincial & Colonial Marks
- Topic: Dognose teaspoon.
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6269
Dognose teaspoon.
I am putting this in Provincial and Colonial because I am having fruitless searches elsewhere. This is nice little dognose teaspoon with the maker’s mark of IH or HI with a drop pellet between the letters. I have search through Grimwade, Chaffers and Jackson without success, to find the maker. I hav...
- Wed Apr 05, 2023 3:56 pm
- Forum: Provincial & Colonial Marks
- Topic: Fiddle Teaspon
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7153
- Mon Mar 27, 2023 6:03 am
- Forum: Provincial & Colonial Marks
- Topic: Fiddle Teaspon
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7153
Re: Fiddle Teaspon
It should be entitled "Fiddle Teaspoon" of course!
- Mon Mar 27, 2023 5:59 am
- Forum: Provincial & Colonial Marks
- Topic: Fiddle Teaspon
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7153
- Sat Dec 24, 2022 8:17 am
- Forum: Mystery Objects
- Topic: Odd tongs.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7746
Re: Odd tongs.
Being of sugar nip size I think that they are for individual use.
- Sat Dec 17, 2022 11:07 am
- Forum: Mystery Objects
- Topic: Odd tongs.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7746
Re: Odd tongs.
I have been reliably informed that they are watercress Tongs. Apparently watercress became hugely fashionable and popular in the early 1800s.
- Mon Dec 12, 2022 6:38 am
- Forum: Mystery Objects
- Topic: Odd tongs.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7746
Odd tongs.
This is a bit of an oddity. It is 5 inches in length with a spring action. It has one arm with head with four flat ended tines and the other head with a spade like feature. It is not bowled like a spoon but just a flattened curve. It has a Sheffield hallmark for 1820. The immediate thought is “sugar...
- Fri Nov 18, 2022 12:21 pm
- Forum: General Questions
- Topic: Reference Books for Bermuda & West Indies ?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5954
Re: Reference Books for Bermuda & West Indies ?
Try “Bermuda’s Antique Furniture & Silver” by Bryden Bordley Hyde
Published by Bermuda National Trust, 1971.
Good Luck!
Paul.
Published by Bermuda National Trust, 1971.
Good Luck!
Paul.
- Thu Aug 11, 2022 11:04 am
- Forum: General Questions
- Topic: Silver plate date letters.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6830
Re: Silver plate date letters.
Hello Trev. What a challenge! I was hoping that there would be a nice convenient record somewhere. I have all sorts of pieces with "date letters" but it is almost impossible to date them accurately. Presentaion engravings help in some cases, but htere is nothing to say that the engraved pi...
- Mon Aug 08, 2022 4:44 pm
- Forum: General Questions
- Topic: Silver plate date letters.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6830
Re: Silver plate date letters.
I have date letters for Walker and Hall and Elkington, but would like to find others.paulh wrote:Does anyone know if any records of silver plate
date letters for manufacturers such as Mappin and Webb, Martin, Hall & Co and James Dixon?
- Mon Aug 08, 2022 4:42 pm
- Forum: General Questions
- Topic: Silver plate date letters.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6830
Silver plate date letters.
Does anyone know if any records of silver plate
date letters for manufacturers such as Mappin and Webb, Martin, Hall & Co and James Dixon?
date letters for manufacturers such as Mappin and Webb, Martin, Hall & Co and James Dixon?
- Tue Jul 12, 2022 3:34 pm
- Forum: Sheffield Hallmarks
- Topic: Unusual hallmark
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7365
Re: Unusual hallmark
That looks like the Agnus Dei, the Lamb of God, but I don't know why it is included in a Vander's hallmark.
- Mon Jan 03, 2022 5:18 pm
- Forum: Provincial & Colonial Marks
- Topic: DB on a Bright Cut Table Spoon
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10707
Re: DB on a Bright Cut Table Spoon
I know what you mean about the Channel Islands. I do have a C. I. spoon with that crossed L. A duty dodger is a possibility.
- Mon Jan 03, 2022 12:39 pm
- Forum: Provincial & Colonial Marks
- Topic: DB on a Bright Cut Table Spoon
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10707
Re: DB on a Bright Cut Table Spoon
Hello Aguest, Thank you for your response. I did consider Daniel Beets, but the “D” on this spoon is very distinctive and does not match any examples of his punch which I have seen. He was also working rather later than the style of spoon would suggest. Although style in colonial silver cannot reall...
- Sun Jan 02, 2022 12:18 pm
- Forum: British Hallmarks - Single Image
- Topic: Banff?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 13030
Re: Banff?
Hello Trev,
That was the only person who came close, but I can't find an exact match. It may be that the mark is so distorted that what I am seeing as a pellet after the "M" is the bottom of the "c".
Happy New Year.
Paul.
That was the only person who came close, but I can't find an exact match. It may be that the mark is so distorted that what I am seeing as a pellet after the "M" is the bottom of the "c".
Happy New Year.
Paul.
- Sun Jan 02, 2022 8:37 am
- Forum: British Hallmarks - Single Image
- Topic: Banff?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 13030
Banff?
This is the mark on an Old English pattern tea spoon. It is difficult to see from the pictures, but there is a rubbed mark on the left which I can just make out to be a capital “B”. There is an “H” then a maker’s mark and then what appears to be an “R”. The maker’s mark seems to be “M• ?”. I have se...
- Sat Jan 01, 2022 1:00 pm
- Forum: Provincial & Colonial Marks
- Topic: DB on a Bright Cut Table Spoon
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10707
- Tue Nov 23, 2021 8:40 am
- Forum: Mystery Objects
- Topic: Mystery mark.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7435
Re: Mystery mark.
So true about accountants running businesses about which they know nothing. I left the silver business when the family buisness I worked for brought in a team from the cheaper end of the shoe trade. They could just about tell you that forks were the spikey ones!