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- Fri Jan 14, 2022 10:24 am
- Forum: London Hallmarks
- Topic: London 1783 Spoon
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Re: London 1783 Spoon
Thank you Aguest, for your comments and Hester Bateman suggestion. I’ve looked over the spoon with a 10x loop and don’t see much more than shown in the photos. There definitely seems to be a fairly deep small remnant of a mark leading the other three visible marks (where I point the red arrow), but ...
- Thu Jan 06, 2022 2:06 pm
- Forum: London Hallmarks
- Topic: London 1783 Spoon
- Replies: 6
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Re: London 1783 Spoon
The maker's mark has probably just worn due to polishing and maybe it was initially also struck poorly. It's impossible to know the maker because spoons are the most common type of silverware. All other marks are there except the duty mark (soveraign's head) because it was introduced in 1784 and th...
- Thu Jan 06, 2022 1:23 pm
- Forum: London Hallmarks
- Topic: London 1783 Spoon
- Replies: 6
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Re: London 1783 Spoon
Oops, duplicate post.
- Thu Jan 06, 2022 1:20 pm
- Forum: London Hallmarks
- Topic: London 1783 Spoon
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1549
Re: London 1783 Spoon
Hello, I’m new here. I signed up so that I could share a few photographs of a spoon I have, and hopefully get some thoughts about it. It’s been in family storage for a long time and was a gift to my mother sometime in the 1960s. I don’t know where it was purchased. The generic tag from the shop is ...
- Thu Jan 06, 2022 1:14 pm
- Forum: London Hallmarks
- Topic: London 1783 Spoon
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1549
London 1783 Spoon
Hello, I’m new here. I signed up so that I could share a few photographs of a spoon I have, and hopefully get some thoughts about it. It’s been in family storage for a long time and was a gift to my mother sometime in the 1960s. I don’t know where it was purchased. The generic tag from the shop is s...