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Hi All, picked these items up at an estate sale yesterday - the nut/mint dishes and small spoons are Birks sterling (1962), the other 2 spoons are Roden Bros and probably sold through Birks.
The other little dish I need help with, it has an 1878 US silver dollar in the middle, and just marked sterling on the rim. I'm assuming it is a real silver dollar, but since I don't know squat about them, I believe posting here will give me the answer With no maker mark on the dish, is it possible to ID the maker? Would pieces like this be made for a special occasion? Any idea on date it would have been made?
any information appreciated
thanks for looking

 

Hi. It's an 1878-S Dollar. The S means it was minted in San Francisco. Looks legit. I don't know about the bowl.

 

yup , Morgan dollar..... to bad it's not Carson City !!!

nice little silver haul CX !!!

 

wonderful, thank-you for the info @Mattin NJ

thanks komokwa

 

The 1878 S Morgan Dollar is worth about $38 by itself.

 

Or would be if it wasn't made into a bowl. They did that for a while. The Gorham and Birks bits are better than melt, or used to be.

 

great, thanks @Bdigger

Gorham?

 

Personally I love coin bowls. I have a few with foreign coins in the bottom. I’ve got a few spoons with coins as the bowls too. A snuff box with a coin in the top. Probably some other random stuff. My favorite is a letter opener with a Morgan dollar in it. Made by a western shop in the LA area in the early 20th century. Your Morgan looks good to me. Nice score. The Morgan is probably the most popular American coin as far as collectors go. You’d have no problem selling the bowl for well above melt for that reason. I’d love to find one like it. I see no reason to have any worry about that bowl at all. I have no idea when the craze of making coin bowls began or ended but I’d guess your bowl would fall late 19th/early 20th to mid 20th.

 

I love when the Navajo.... use it..

 

Now that sale I'd hit !

 

If that sweet bauble is your's Komo, will you share a look at the back? Not for markings, but perhaps a view of the reverse of those coins, as well as how they were finished.
That is a stunning pendant, as you're well aware.

 

You'd be late, Bosko...Komo has come an' gone with the goods.

 

were it mine..... I'd show off me wearing it....... but alas.... only a web photo that I admired and wanted to make a point with..!

my single Morgan , it's on my desk in front of me , though..

 

Might have been the Birks out to fool me, but usually the lion mark in this country is part of the Gorham mark. In the former Empire, it's a mark on precious metal.

 

thanks J Dagger a letter opener with a silver dollar sounds interesting, post a photo if you have a chance.


wowser komokwa, that piece is fabulous

not Birks or Gorham

 

That's one I've never seen. Canadian?

 

It’s buried pretty deep. Next time I uncover it I will try to get a pic. It’s not totally different than the one pictured. Similar scroll work, but all over. My coin is set much nicer and the shape is nicer on mine. Kind of similar to a Bowie knife blade shape rather than a straight dirk blade shape like the one pictured.