Featured georgian ? silver ? spoon

a couple of cool 10p buys from this morning

i thought the spoon (5 3/4")was silver immediately, from the colour that was free from tarnish

cleaned it and saw that there were a few hallmarks inside concave part, two have gone completely.

never seen a georgian spoon before, but thats what i thought as soon as i saw it (i think i might have been here before )

cant find any info on the lettering tried PDR, PDP, RDR

ive worked out the other thing is a glass cutter, with a tiny rough diamond embedded,

anythoughts or info appreciated

 

French solid silver, Charlie!

 

And later than Georgian. The assay mark looks like the Minerva head, the mark in the lozenge is a maker's mark.

 

cool cool merci bakers, any idea of age ? which is gonna be the important factor i guess

 

cool thanks Aj

 

The Minerva head was introduced in 1838, and is still used.

 

You're welcome, Charlie! For future reference, any time you see little punches in the bowl of a spoon or on the tines of a fork, you've got something from France. The diamond shape for the maker's mark is for solid, square or rectangle is for silver plate.

 

what would i do without ya bakers, great info, thanks

 

Glass cutter early 20thc.

 

First standard .950 silver, maker Pierre-Désiré Raynaud, working from 1864 to around 1887...

~Cheryl

 

From where I'm from they are also known as rich holiday makers posh sports car scratchers

 

Brilliant stuff, thanks cheryl

 

Ah.. luxury tools for luxury cars!
Out here we have to make do with "keying"

 

If I catch ANYONE doing this to ANY CAR.... I'll beat the crap out of the dude

 

or dudette, right?

 

My fault kyra, was making a stupid joke

Remind me to never get on the wrong side of you

 

Sure, ANYONE

 

My Jag was deeply keyed when it belonged to the original owner. He got so upset that he put it up for sale and I bought it with the keying. Terrible thing to do to a car.

 

When I lived in Paris all my little BASIC cars were keyed! (And not due to wrong parking...)
That's why I sweared to myself the first I see doing that will pay for others, HA!