Spoon: 12 Loth Hunnius Alternate Script?

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Reference last year’s post by Jannie: viewtopic.php?p=210343&hilit=hunnius#p210343

Sample large table/serving spoon:














Is this another version of his marks, or a different silversmith? TIA (Could be a problem with images not showing in the preview..will try again if that’s the case.)

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Again:

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Not sure what’s going haywire but images are posting too small or not at all. Might be a problem over at postimages. Sorry.

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Now it works..go figure!

[Theoderich]

Yes, it is Bernhardt Friedrich Wilhelm Hunnius from Hildesheim.

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Many Thanks!

[Bahner]

... just for clarification: Scheffler documents various ways of writing HUNNIUS, so there ist no doubt that this is the very same Hunnius. Regards Bahner

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Thanks for that extra, Bahner? So why is there almost nothing surfacing related to this long lived master, at least not on this end of the electro-planet? Shouldn’t more of his work be turning up?

[Bahner]

Hello, considering the meltdowns of silver in Germany druring the past 220 years (Napoleonic Wars, WW I, WW II, 1970ies, 2011, past six months) I am astonished that old small silver objects of German origin exist today. Regards Bahner

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And yet an entire Roman silver hoard survived for centuries buried in this location. Considering what happened there in 1945, it’s probably a good thing that some objects left to be re-discovered later.