Broom Silver

[MartinYirrell]

I wonder if anyone can identify these markings on my salt spoon. The spoon is fiddle pattern and the photographs are of the rear of the terminal.





Martin

[dognose]

Hi Martin,

Welcome to the Forum.

It's difficult to say who actually made your spoon, as the trade mark appears to have changed hands a couple of times.

Its origins appear to be with David Miller & Son of Sheffield, then passing, perhaps, to Thomas Blake and then to Castle & Turton.





The one thing you can say for sure is that it was made in Sheffield.

Trev.

[MartinYirrell]

Trev

Thanks, interesting. It'll give me a bit more to investigate. (has to be the best bit of collecting)

Martin

[Trevorwin]

Most of these electroplate and silverplate makers operated in the town of Sheffield from c. 1840 to c. 1940