"PC" or "PG" Early 19th Century Silversmith
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2022 4:58 pm
Hello, I have another Dutch spoon in my spoon box. A very nice looking 13 cms long spoon. With its styled "K", I worked out before I bought it, that it should be a 1819 spoon. I thought "Pieter Geijskes" a silversmith in Schoonhoven with dates 1812 to 1816 was a likely maker. His mark is described on "Zilver.nl" as "PG with a half moon in a diamond-shaped frame".
A good clean of the marks and a proper look suggests to me that it is a "PC" maker and it may be under a bunch (bouquet) of flowers, but certainly not under a half moon. The Minerva head seems to have had the silver guild mark worn away. I hope the Forum can suggest a maker for my new spoon. The diamond or lozenge shaped maker's mark looks more like a French silversmith's mark to me. Was that the cartouche shape that was typically used for Dutch silver maker's marks registered during that early 19th century period when Holland was under that French "influence".
Fishless
A good clean of the marks and a proper look suggests to me that it is a "PC" maker and it may be under a bunch (bouquet) of flowers, but certainly not under a half moon. The Minerva head seems to have had the silver guild mark worn away. I hope the Forum can suggest a maker for my new spoon. The diamond or lozenge shaped maker's mark looks more like a French silversmith's mark to me. Was that the cartouche shape that was typically used for Dutch silver maker's marks registered during that early 19th century period when Holland was under that French "influence".
Fishless
