Scottish Provincial ???

[StewartMcI]

Any help with this combination of makers' marks would be greatly appreciated.

We bought the illustrated spoon some years back thinking the "JO" mark would almost certainly be for James ORR of Greenock, although the more recent Edinburgh archive shows this as "unidentified".

What has completely baffled us, however, is the second maker's mark which we read as "IRB" although it could be "IRR".

Any thoughts or pointers ???

Stewart

[MCB]

Hello Stewart

My notes show Edinburgh Assay Office registered a mark for James Oliphant in 1760 but had no copy of it. Currently access to their website isn't open to check this detail but perhaps the mark still had relevance at the time this spoon was assayed?
Sorry to say the only mark in my notes for Scotland which resembles IRB or IRR is the IPR used from around 1817 by John and Patrick Riach of Forres.

Regards
Mike