please help unknown hallmark " onc "
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 4:49 pm
this is a small ladle , like a sauce ladle .. hallmarked ... ONC Sterling .. does someone know this mark ... thanks in advance ..Tim.... 
"ONC" stands for "Old Newbury Crafters". Bad news: the piece isn't "old" as its style indicates. ONC "remakes" a number of patterns in the hand made style of two hundred or so years ago. Good news: ONC makes good, faithful reproductions that are, IMO, aesthetically more pleasing than 95% of the more ornate punch press patterns made since. Well, just my opinion. The style of your piece is "fiddle pattern", which had a rather wide timespan of popularity, from approx. 1800 to nearly a hundred years later, though more ornate patterns came to the fore in around 1850. The height of the popularity of this pattern was perhaps around 1835. I don't have info re the ONC marks, but am guessing that your piece was made within the last thirty or so years.
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