This is a silver spoon, pewter is a different matter - this spoon is not cast. Here is a thread showing an older spoon, most likely American,...
'Coin silver' is a term used primarily in American silver, but silver of any fineness can be hand-worked, die-stamped, or cast. Cast silver lacks...
This isn't a cast spoon, those are fold marks from when the spoon was hammered into shape, a good silversmith would not have left them... ~Cheryl
That is an odd spoon, the stem seems short and thick, and sort of looks like it was unfinished, yet it does show signs of planishing and...
Not me - Bakersgma and Ladybranch... ~Cheryl
Kettle rather than pot... ~Cheryl
Heh, used to have a friend who could do the voice perfectly - very disturbing... ~Cheryl
"...I'm going to kill you!" One of the all-time great Twilight Zone episodes... ~Cheryl
Hehe, can't help the way you feel - have a friend who collects dolls and my skin crawls everytime I step Into the 'nursery', hundreds of...
Okay - confused at making a little old lady into a vampire... Just implying creepiness? ~Cheryl
Komokwa - years ago, started saving cat whiskers for an artist I'd known since childhood, but ended up keeping them, still adding to the old glass...
Article on hair-work: http://www.victoriangothic.org/the-lost-art-of-sentimental-hairwork/ Leila's Hair Museum: http://www.leilashairmuseum.net...
So strange, the reactions hair causes in some people, once worked for a man who threw away his hair brushes rather than clean out the hair (he was...
Personally, don't find them creepy at all, no more so than placing a lock of hair in a baby book or a locket. It's a very nice piece, most...
That is Gilbert's mark, with pseudo-marks attributed to his shop - in that beaded pattern, you're looking at the latter part of his working...
Almost looks like it might be overstruck... Does it appear like there may be one stamp over another one? ~Cheryl
Eh, my eyesight is failing, but have been puzzling over it - looking at it now on my Mom's huge hi-res monitor and still can't make it out...
Not coin, Austrian 13 loth (.812 fineness), Vienna 1863. ~Cheryl
Sorry, should have been more clear, the sterling versions that I've run across bore no maker's marks, only 'Sterling' - I recognized the patterns...
The mark on this piece is 'PATENT 1847'. Just as a note, Meriden Britannia did offer sterling spoons and forks in most of their '1847 Rogers...
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