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Broom Silver

Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 1:53 pm
by 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.

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Martin

Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 2:46 pm
by 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.

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

Trev.

Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 4:31 pm
by MartinYirrell
Trev

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

Martin

Re: Broom Silver

Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:04 am
by Trevorwin
Most of these electroplate and silverplate makers operated in the town of Sheffield from c. 1840 to c. 1940