Featured A Couple of Sterling Pieces - Need Help

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  1. cxgirl

    cxgirl Well-Known Member

    Hi All, a couple of sterling pieces I need help with.
    Any information appreciated
    thanks for looking:)
    #1 Gorham sterling, I'm trying to find the pattern name, not sure if this piece is part of a set or not. I looked and couldn't find anything but thought I would ask here. Engraved on the back with 1985
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    #2 London Sterling Sugar nips/tongs - I thought the top figure was an apostle (maybe Phillip with the staff?), bottom figure looks like an angel? I can't find anything similar, thought if I asked here someone would be able to find another one.

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    cxgirl, Dec 30, 2022
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  2. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

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  3. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    Your Gorham piece looks like Luxembourg.

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    Luxembourg – 1893


    Some serving pieces also made in silverplate beginning in 1977.
    Designer: George Wilkinson
     
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  4. cxgirl

    cxgirl Well-Known Member

    thanks komokwa:)


    fantastic, you are the best, thank-you bakers:) so glad I asked here!
     
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  5. silvermakersmarks

    silvermakersmarks Well-Known Member

    The London hallmark on the tongs have the date letter Q for the assay year 1891/92 and the makers mark, JW over FCW, of Wakely & Wheeler (James Wakely & Frank Clarke Wheeler).

    They would probably have originally been part of an "apostle" teaspoon and tongs set.

    Phil
     
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  6. cxgirl

    cxgirl Well-Known Member

    Wonderful, thank-you Phil, you have good eyes, it took me a bit of time to figure out the maker:) Sorry, I should have said I knew the date/maker/location. Have you seen them with the angel figure?
     
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  7. silvermakersmarks

    silvermakersmarks Well-Known Member

    They do occasionally come with motifs of some sort at the bowl end. This version of Wakely & Wheeler's mark is quite distinctive in shape so I was pretty sure what it was even before seeing the letters.
     
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  8. cxgirl

    cxgirl Well-Known Member

    thanks Phil:)
     
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  9. MrNate

    MrNate Well-Known Member

    The tongs are very pretty.
     
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  10. cxgirl

    cxgirl Well-Known Member

    Thanks @MrNate :) Hope 2023 brings lots of silver treasures your way:)
     
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