Featured 1876 833 Silver Tea Spoons

Discussion in 'Silver' started by Marote, Apr 27, 2024.

  1. Marote

    Marote Well-Known Member

    Bought (11 of these) today (in the spoon box that can be found in another post):
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    If I read the marks correctly, this is:
    1876 Dutch 833 silver by P. van Geelen & Zn
    Correct?
     
    Last edited: Apr 27, 2024
  2. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    This is correct.

    The photo of the maker's mark is blurry, but I don't recognize it as a Pieter van Geelen & Zn mark. But then again, they used several marks, I could be missing some information.
    The marks I know are on pages 73 and 74 on this site:

    https://historischeverenigingschoonhoven.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Genealogie-van-Geelen.pdf

    And then there is a Pieter van Geelen 'de vervalser';) (the faker), but his marks are all crowned shields. He did work during the period your spoon was made.
     
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  3. Marote

    Marote Well-Known Member

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  4. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Yes, it could be the PG21 mark, if I scrunch my eyes.:watching: You have the benefit of seeing it in real life, I have to make do with the blurry photo.;)
    Don't you just love those tiny photos on GZU.:banghead:
     
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  5. Marote

    Marote Well-Known Member

    Even in real life it's hard to read. The PG part is clear on most of the spoons (some look like P6), but the 21 but looks like 21 on some and 22 on others (and even 11, 88, or any other letter and/or number combination by Jesus-on-toast-interpretation)
     
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  6. Marote

    Marote Well-Known Member

    I was already glad this image was visible, because there were also some pages with missing images
     
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  7. Marote

    Marote Well-Known Member

    Polished the spoons today.
    Only when cleaning them, I noticed that one had been repaired with solder.
    And by "noticed" I mean that the top started to bend and I almost ended up having 2 halves of a spoon in my hands.
    Fortunately no issues with the other 10 spoons.

    Before:
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    After:
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    The good news:
    It's so clean, I can see myself
    The bad news:
    I can see myself

    Also polished a silverplate sugar/spice scoop. No 'before pic' of this one, but it was very dark. And now I have another "mirror"
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  8. Lucille.b

    Lucille.b Well-Known Member

    Beautiful job on the polishing! And nice find. :)
     
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