Pretty sure they were originally marketed as elephants...*shrug* ~Cheryl
An old friend's father, who was Panamanian, wanted to name her brothers as the boys in his family were named, Jorge Uno, Jorge Dos, Jorge Tres,...
Should I mention that Shoemaker was thinking 'elephant' when e designed them? Always good to mention both 'bear' and 'elephant' when selling...
'Trip' is a fairly common nickname here for those who are given the dubious distinction of being a 'III'... ~Cheryl
Nesting bear shakers, Don Shoemaker or copies of his design - the basket is unrelated... ~Cheryl
Very nice find! The Muisca are not familiar to me, so good to see this when I came back in. Just back in from setting up Presh's grooming...
Ahhh - a Colombian connection... ~Cheryl
Eh, to my eye, has a sort of pre-Columbian look to it. Just some random thoughts - when I see a '0900' mark like that on silver (is this made of...
Your pics are just fine, please show at least one of the whole spoon. Personally have little time for guessing games - when asking for...
All my button books are packed away, but both buttons would date to right around the 1890s, and both are brass, the first silvered, the second...
You might try for a higher resolution image of the marks, to my eye looks like you're enlarging them, making them a bit fuzzy. Your second pic,...
Is there some reason you don't want to post a full image of the spoon - or does it only have a bowl? ~Cheryl
From what I can make out, it ends with 'OY ALP', the 'Oy' being the equivalent of 'Limited Co.', the 'Alp' standing for Alpakka/Alpaca (nickel...
Soupière:...
Believe the French would more likely call a tureen a 'soupière'... ~Cheryl
I'm lucky if my brain works at all these days... ~Cheryl
Tureen... ~Cheryl
Please show the initials mentioned, as well as any other marks... ~Cheryl
Darn, ended up diving into a rabbit-hole - while most of the instructions I found are from the 1910s and '20s, also found one shown in an 1896...
Just poking around a little bit, the earliest instructions I found were from 1914: [ATTACH] ~Cheryl
Separate names with a comma.
