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I have 2 spoons that look to be coin silver w E. Rowse stamped on back.
They also have initials O.A.R. engraved on back which was the person that owned them.I have a larger spoon,almost 2x size of a tablespoon that came with these engraved Oct. Robe on front of handle and Beasom & Reed stamped in one section on back and Nashua on another part of the handle.
This same person had 5 other coin silver spoons engraved with O.A.R. but have maker stamp J.Ridgway.
I have not been able to find any info on ridgway or Rowse .
Any ideas when and where these were manufactured?
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The owner seems to have traveled about -- Boston MA, Nashua NH, and Augusta ME.

Edward Rowse

James or John or John -- no one has established with certainty which of the three used the mark J.RIDGWAY or if they all did.
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I will post photos of the marks in the coin silver section w photos.
Mine just say E. Rowse. and the link you gave seems to say E Rowse jr.
Maybe he had a father or relative with same initial?
I also have a mark for the J. Ridgway .. which can be forwarded to the site you gave a link to,since they do not have any marks for the Ridgways you mentioned.

Thanks for the info .
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I presume Rowse used that mark until his father died; I have seen three other versions, but the one shown is the only one I own. As for the Ridgeway's, I have not put up the mark for any of them on my site, as it is not known which (if not some or all) used it; there is enough mis-information about silver spread across the web without consciously adding to it.
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I just found out how to use my flickr photos to post on here.
My photos of the spoons mentioned are in the American Coin silver section w photos. I also added southworth spoon photo which I bought with these other spoons.

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