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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;J Dagger, post: 10298895, member: 10944&quot;]Thanks for the reply. I’m pretty familiar with American coin silver. I own at least a hundred pieces, probably quite a few more. Mostly 19th century and a bit of 18th century. It’s an area I’m really interested in. At one point I was considering trying to obtain an example by every known northeastern maker. I thought it would be a fun pursuit. This would be much easier achieved for 19th century production obviously. I was actually digging out some coin silver when I found this piece. If this is American coin silver with a rattail it will be quite the treasure. American rattail spoons are pretty hard to come by. It’s not something I had considered. After considering it I’m not sure I’d bet my spoon on it but that would be awesome if it were. While the marks clearly don’t resemble any known (to me or you) European or other old world hallmarks they also don’t resemble any American coin silver marks like I’ve ever seen. I assume they are badly worn. To me the spoon seems old world rather than new. I’d like nothing more than for it to be American though now that you’ve mentioned it. I’ll break it out soon and get a better image of the makers mark. Dupuy’s work doesn’t show any similar markings or use of rattails. It’s possible it’s not a DD, even though that’s what it looks like in my photos. I wasn’t focusing the camera on the makers mark until I had a direction to go with the other marks. Thank you for opening my mind to American being a possibility.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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