Dutch Apostle Spoons??

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WanderingMosaic
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Dutch Apostle Spoons??

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I'm posting this in the Dutch silver section because I believe that these are dutch based on the family history behind them. However, feel free to move it to the correct forum if I'm wrong.

I'm having difficulty (read: no luck yet) even distinguishing the hallmarks on this set of spoons. They are very similar to the British apostle spoons, but they don't bear any of the signature British hallmarks (or any one that I recognize). There are 6 spoons in this set.

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The hallmarks are very worn on the back of all of these spoons. Here are the hallmarks from the best in the collection. I'd take pictures of all of them and composite them into a 'better' image, but I'm not that confident in my compositing abilities.

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I have a suspicion that the hallmark with the x's in it might be the city mark for Amsterdam, but I don't believe I have the other end of it to be certain.

Any help identifying the hallmarks would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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Re: Dutch Apostle Spoons??

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These are probably Dutch.

The only hallmark with some relevance seems to be the W with a L or ... this is probably the makers mark. The others are pseudo marks. Although the big H is a little strange in its present form.

Most of the silverware marked with these pseudo marks were made between 1890 and 1910.
WanderingMosaic
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Re: Dutch Apostle Spoons??

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The maker's hallmark is either W.L or W.K .... but it is pretty blurry

I think the second mark is an Anchor (of some shape or flavor)

The third mark might be something like this (pardon the poor MS Paint drawing)

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However, it might be sideways ....
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Re: Dutch Apostle Spoons??

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I just noticed that there is a sword next to the stem ... it looks like style # D on the dutch hallmark page on this site, but I can't get a good enough picture to blow up large enough on my monitor to confirm. This would also support the 1890-1910 aging.
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