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I forgot to mention... The Friedenthal references you mention doesn't say *what* the town mark is, nor do any of the other two references I indicated. However, from the drawing of the mark in A. Leistikow's book it seem that Weissenstein's town mark was a tower, sideways, perhaps a reference to the ...

We are obviously talking about the same person! Well done!

Regards,

Scotrab

I think I found the maker. He is Adolf Friedrich Lundmann (1827-1878) from Weissenstein, now Paide, a town 80km (50 miles) southeast of Reval. Ref.: A. Leistikow, Baltisches Silber , Institut Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk 1996, p. 338 K.Kirme, Eesti Hobe , Tallinn Kirjastus "Kunst" 2000, no....

Good morning Krista, Your spoon ist not a captain's spoon but a spoon given to F. H. Tegeler for some occasion, birth, christening, wedding etc. on 3 September 1856. AL is the mark of the goldsmith who made the spoon. The two following marks are unclear: I have to look in my references to see if I c...

Hello Colin, Peter is correct that the city mark is the one from Pernau. And Silverstone is correct to point to the maker, Andreas Sperl. The first reference is to an article published in the magazine for spoon collectors, The Finial , written by Jürgen Beyer and published in Vol. 21/02, Nov.-Dec. 2...

Thank you Peter! I remember the spoon: I saw it too late and I missed the auction. I particularly liked the fact that it had the arms of the Duchy of Kurland as city mark. There is a little more information on Martin Krüger in both A. Leistikow's and V. Vilite's books: A. Leistikow, Baltisches Silbe...

Lovely spoons! And lovely photo!

Many thanks!

Scotrab

First of all congratulations for a very nice and interesting Captain's Spoons. Here few notes that might be of interest: 1. As Silverstone already pointed out, the spoon is quite old. The oldest Captain's Spoon known with certainty is a spoon from Elbing of 1753 in the collection of the Northern Mar...

Thank you very much! Very helpful. I have not been to Rundale Castle, unfortunately. I have been to Riga and spent most of the time in the National Archive, the National Library and the Maritime Archive (and on walks in the city to stretch my legs and clear my head). I had arrived there with a long ...

Well, first of all I have a couple of other captain's spoons from commercial houses in Libau made by him, among which also two made for Jacob Harmsens Jr. in 1825, with same style and decoration as the spoon of Dartsil. To find him I had to think a little laterally - and keep digging in the more rem...

As already indicated by Sasropakis and Bahner, your Captain's Spoon was made by L. Wolff in Stettin, previously in Pomerania (Pommern) in Germany now Szczecin in Poland, for the merchant and ship's agent J. W. L. Geiseler in Stettin. His firm is to be found as W. Geiseler in the address books for St...

Your Captain's Spoon was made for the ship's agent Friedrich Schnell in Pillau. Pillau was the port near Königsberg in East Prussia where the vessels with a deeper draught had to make fast and unload if they couldn't reach directly Königsberg, now Baltiysk in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia. The im...

Your Captain's Spoon was made in Libau (then Livland, now Liepaja Latvia) by the silversmith Carl David Görtchen (Gärtchen, Gertchen, Gerdchen, Gercken), active in the first half of the 19th century, for the commercial house Jacob Harmsen junior in Libau. Ref. Erich Seuberlich, Beiträge zur Geschich...

Good evening, Apologies for the late reply! 1) It is indeed a Captain's Spoon, from the large Königsberg company Robert Kleyenstüber & Co. They were ship's agents, certified ship's brokers and later ship owners. There is quite a large amount of information on them on the web, mostly in German. T...

Thank you very much for another nice photograph!

Good afternoon Silverstone, Congratulations! A very nice and well presented collection of Captain's Spoons. J. Mitchell & Co can be found in the 1846 address book for Riga as "Mitchell J. (& T. A.). Kaufm. 1., ausländ. Gast; Firma: "Mitchell & Co.", Comptoirist und Schiffs...

Many thanks Ringo! I am extremely pleased that my assumption that was unfounded up to your message has been proved correct by the well-known authority of Prof. Annelore Leistikow. I simply had not been able to find another plausible explanation. Thank you for the quotation from A. Leistikow's book. ...

Happy New Year to all of you, for a successful and less stressful 2022. My comments refer specifically to the previous submissions by Goldstein and Ringo regarding unmarked captain's spoons from Pernau. I have been interested in captain's spoons for several years, not so much for the spoons themselv...

The maker: Carl (Heinrich Ludwig) Zimmermann; Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, exclave in Russia), b. ca. 1793, jeweler, gold- and silversmith 1822, d. 1860. Date letter T. for 1836. Numerous objects by him are known. Sources: 1) E. von Czihak, Die Edelschmiedekunst früherer Zeiten in Preussen , II. Kön...

I attach here below two image of a teaspoon I obtained recently. The austro-hungarian mark shows clearly the mark used 1807-1866 by the office in Lemberg, Galizien (Lwów in polish, L'vov in russian, now L'viv in Ukraine) with tha date of 1865. Tha maker's mark is AA. I do not have any references at ...