Rare makers marks

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FoundInNC
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Rare makers marks

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I purchased a set of eight American Coin Silver serving spoons today. There were some unknown marks, please help if you can.

T RICHARDS

HILLIARD

RAWLS

Thanks so much in advance!
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Re: Rare makers marks

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FoundInNC wrote:I purchased a set of eight American Coin Silver serving spoons today. There were some unknown marks, please help if you can.

T RICHARDS

HILLIARD

RAWLS

Thanks so much in advance!
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Re: Rare makers marks

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FoundInNC wrote:
FoundInNC wrote:I purchased a set of eight American Coin Silver serving spoons today. There were some unknown marks, please help if you can.

T RICHARDS

HILLIARD

RAWLS

Thanks so much in advance!
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https://ibb.co/bs9mLRC
https://ibb.co/phGrxX1 [/img]
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Re: Rare makers marks

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FoundInNC wrote:
FoundInNC wrote:
FoundInNC wrote:I purchased a set of eight American Coin Silver serving spoons today. There were some unknown marks, please help if you can.

T RICHARDS

HILLIARD

RAWLS

Thanks so much in advance!
T. Richards -- Thomas Richards
Rawls -- Benjamin Rawls, watchmaker and silversmith, Columbia SC c 1815-1850
Hillard -- as yet unidentified
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FoundInNC
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Re: Rare makers marks

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Thank you very much! I am happy yo have this information!

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wev wrote:
FoundInNC wrote:
FoundInNC wrote:
T. Richards -- Thomas Richards
Rawls -- Benjamin Rawls, watchmaker and silversmith, Columbia SC c 1815-1850
Hillard -- as yet unidentified
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Re: Rare makers marks

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wev wrote: Hillard -- as yet unidentified
There is an advertisement in the Raleigh Minerva (Raleigh, North Carolina) newspaper dated 19 October 1802 page 3 for a William Hilliard Jeweler & Silver Smith. The date within the advertisement is 16 September. Just a possibility, however remote.
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Re: Rare makers marks

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Correct! "William Hilliard, Fayetteville, NC 1801-1810 and Jonesboro, NC 1814"
silverly wrote:
wev wrote: Hillard -- as yet unidentified
There is an advertisement in the Raleigh Minerva (Raleigh, North Carolina) newspaper dated 19 October 1802 page 3 for a William Hilliard Jeweler & Silver Smith. The date within the advertisement is 16 September. Just a possibility, however remote.
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FoundInNC wrote:Correct! "William Hilliard, Fayetteville, NC 1801-1810 and Jonesboro, NC 1814"
silverly wrote:
wev wrote: Hillard -- as yet unidentified
There is an advertisement in the Raleigh Minerva (Raleigh, North Carolina) newspaper dated 19 October 1802 page 3 for a William Hilliard Jeweler & Silver Smith. The date within the advertisement is 16 September. Just a possibility, however remote.
I would have to see the whole spoon. I have seen this mark on spoons too late to be his. As Cutten notes, George W. Hilliard, possibly his son, may have used this mark based on an earlier version used by William at the end of his career.
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