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Hello Trev. I did a bit more hunting around and found this obscure piece of research: Close plating: A Black Country silver plating process Reg Morton and Michael Hallett This paper is mainly the result of work done by Reg Morton and his colleagues and was given to Michael Hallett for completion upo...

A question has arisen recently about the base metals used in close plating. Does anyone know of any instances of close plating on copper? Opinions welcomed.

Paul

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.

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 &...

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...

dognose wrote: ↑Tue Mar 28, 2023 1:49 pm I find nothing in my American, Canadian or Indian references.

Trev.

Nothing in any of my books. Cape, Canada or Chinese export. I have been through Bermuda, Scotland and Australia plus all manner of other places 00without success.

It should be entitled "Fiddle Teaspoon" of course!

This is just an ordinary fiddle teaspoon, but the origin is proving elusive. Any ideas?

Being of sugar nip size I think that they are for individual use.

I have been reliably informed that they are watercress Tongs. Apparently watercress became hugely fashionable and popular in the early 1800s.

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...

Try “Bermuda’s Antique Furniture & Silver” by Bryden Bordley Hyde
Published by Bermuda National Trust, 1971.

Good Luck!

Paul.

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...

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?

I have date letters for Walker and Hall and Elkington, but would like to find others.

Does anyone know if any records of silver plate
date letters for manufacturers such as Mappin and Webb, Martin, Hall & Co and James Dixon?

That looks like the Agnus Dei, the Lamb of God, but I don't know why it is included in a Vander's hallmark.

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.

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...

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.

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...