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Thanks Trevor for that reference.

Sorry, that should have been Fivemiletown, Co. Tyrone.

Mary Sophia Juliana Maude (1841-1928), daughter of the Rt. Hon. John Charles Maude, Rector of Enniskillen, and Mary Cely Trevilian, married 1870, the Rt. Hon. Hugh de Fellenberg Montgomery of Blessingbourne, Co. Fermanagh. In 1892/93, she founded a needlework class in Fivemiletown, Co Fermanagh, tha...

Would anyone have an example of a mark registered in Dublin for Mary Mountgomery who assayed items in 1910 and 1912?

The crest on the spoon is that of the Colonna family, Principe Assistente al Soglio Pontificio, Patrician of Rome, Prince of Palestrina, Prince and Duke of Paliano etc. etc. etc.

The initials appear to be H C B. This may suggest the family of Burke, Marquisses of Clanrickarde.

The crest is similar to that of the Marquis of Clanricarde, Portumna, Co. Galway.

Sorry, the mark does not show the Gonfalone above the crossed keys. It shows the Tiara or papal crown.

The Gonfalone is used when the see is vacant.

Interestingly, the crest on the spoon is that of the Roman princely family of Colonna. A branch of the family is represented in Frosinone by the Turriziani Colonna. The mark or Bolla bearing the crossed keys of St. Peter under the Gonfalone (umbrella) is the official mark of guarantee issued by the ...

Perhaps, Penrose (of Cork) ?

Of course they have been used.

In Germany and central Europe they come with much shorter handles and are usually placed inside of the chalice.

Ampolla translates into English as cruet and into French as burette

The scruple spoon is still in use and current among the more liturgically educated clergy. The prayer used at the commingling is taken from the sermon on the Incarnation preached on Christmas Day 440 by Pope St Leo the Great (400-460) and runs thus: Deus, + qui humanae substantiae dignitatem et mira...

Here is an article from the Collector's Weekly which would suggest that the rounded ends would date the spoon to post 1820 in examples made in Vermont which produced practically nothing other than flat ware

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/article ... at-a-time/

Have you checked Patricia Kane's Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers: A Biographical Dictionary Based on the Notes of Francis Hill Bigelow and John Marshall Phillips?

If not mistaken, this may be an example of a coffin spoon. They were usually given to pall bearers. The practice died out in England by the beginning of the 18th. century but continued in the North American colonies well into the late 19th. century. On style, this would appear to be early 19th. cent...

Hi Argentum, Such a list would be an interesting project, I'm not aware of such a resource existing. I suppose one spanner in the works may be a possible shared use of a punch, especially amongst the less prolific smiths. It would also be great to know how many die-cutters were working in the provi...

Another mark used by Gibson, this one taken from a spoon c. 1795

The following mark was used by James Warner about 1790 on a dessert spoon:

Recently, I have noticed several items (all ecclesiastical) made by William Egan and Sons of Cork marked with what appears to be a neo-provincial maker's mark unaccompanied by the usual marks issued by the assay office. Has anyone else noted similar pieces. These marks are on a cruet stand. http://i...

possibly a "Y" in alt Fraktur http://vau-ef-be.beepworld.de/files/altfrakturmoderne.jpg but many other examples of alt and moderne Fraktur here: https://www.google.ie/search?q=frakturschrift&sa=X&rlz=1C1CHMO_en-GBIE542IE543&es_sm=122&biw=1517&bih=714&tbm=isch&tb...