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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 10298945, member: 111&quot;]Hunhhh, that&#039;s an odd one - and believe it&#039;s <i>extremely</i> unlikely to be American.&nbsp; Rattails weren&#039;t typically in use by the time Fiddle patterns developed, and personally can&#039;t recall seeing any, other than 19th century Irish pieces.&nbsp; To my eye, the marks resemble squished/distorted hallmarks often found on bottom-marked spoons (struck on the stem), the result of hammering the stem back to normal after stamping widened the area around the mark - but wouldn&#039;t expect to see bottom-marking on an Irish rattail Fiddle, top-marking the norm by the end of the 18th century.&nbsp; That&#039;s all I&#039;ve got, but you might consider researching the crest for the family...&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Here are six Irish spoons, three Old English pattern with a 1779 bottom-marked pair, and three Fiddle pattern, all top-marked, one from 1832 with a rattail:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.leopardantiques.com/object/stock/detail/1143" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.leopardantiques.com/object/stock/detail/1143" rel="nofollow">https://www.leopardantiques.com/object/stock/detail/1143</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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