Featured Gorgeous silver serving spoon

Hey folks, Happy Sunday!

Please help me with this one. I think it's one of my most favorite spoons I have, but I am struggling a bit with hallmarks. It's a medium sized some sort of serving spoon (a bit too big for sugar/salt etc, but yet too small for serving hot food or salads...). I never use these kind of spoons anyway, I just like to look at them, but wondering what their intended use is. Length is approx. 13 cm (5.1 inches).

There are multiple hallmarks on both sides of the spoon in the front. On the right side, I understand there is English hallmarks (possibly William Moering?). On the left side, I am struggling. Dutch? I assume it was made in England for export?

Any help is very appreciated. Details are wonderful and I love that there is a dog in there too

Thanks in advance and have a wonderful day!

 

Your spoon was made in Europe (Netherlands or Hanau?) and imported into Britain by, as you have identified, William Moering. Lower case f is the London date letter for 1901/02 and upper case F ("foreign") identifies it as an import. I leave identification of the other marks to someone more qualified.

 

Not Dutch, a German maker copying a Dutch style. Could be from Hanau, although other German makers also copied this style.

The 830 mark was used in Germany and Austria, not in the Netherlands.
If it were Dutch it would have had an assay mark, in this case a tiny sword.

 

Agree that this is Hanau rather than Dutch, probably Georg Roth as they used various 'A' pseudo-marks, as well as the 'head-in-shield', and Dutch makers did stamp official marks along with their pseudo-marks, most likely on a 'historical' replica piece like this would be, as AJ said, the sword mark, overstamped with the export key mark. The '930' quality mark appears on both Hanau and Dutch pieces intended for export to the UK, since the items must meet the minimum .925 fineness when assayed...

~Cheryl

 

Thank you so much for this information, Cheryl! This is such a great info. I appreciate it a lot.

 

I think in theory this is a "caddy" spoon, or tea scoop, but I doubt it was ever used for anything but being pretty. I've never seen a UK import mark in person; they don't turn up in the USA. Congrats!

 

Spoons like yours were typically offered as bon-bon spoons, mostly just decorative with insinuated age, but used to scoop candy, sweetmeats, nuts, etc. from a dish - tea caddy spoons were smaller in size...

~Cheryl

 

I can see using something similar for M&Ms/Skittles or shelled nuts, but the odds are one in use would have a less decorative handle and a plainer bowl.