Help with silver mark

https://www.smpub.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001000.html
https://www.bexfield.co.uk/thefinial/v13-06/pg16.htm

Seems to be silverplate.

 

The beaver is Canadian.

 

The consensus I see on forums talking about marks from JS&S with a beaver is that it's plate. Seems they were being a bit deceptive with their markings.

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/John_Sherwood_and_Sons Apparently they had their own "beaver brand" line at one point. The postings above mention that JS&S liked to use the beaver in their marking and that it had nothing to do with Canada.

That's all i've seen so far. Nothing to note that it's actually a sterling mark or made in/for Canada.

 

And the John Sherwood and Sons mark is in the silver plate section on 925-1000.

https://www.925-1000.com/silverplate_S2.html

 

In order for them to get their sterling goods marked as such, they would have gone through the assay office where the items would have been marked with the city mark, date code (and depending on the year) the duty mark. But I bet the Sherwoods were frugal and had their own stamps for the registered maker's mark, etc. for marking their plated goods. Of course that is just my conjecture.

 

As already suggested, it's Sherwood's 'Beaver Brand' electroplate, the crown wasn't allowed on silverplate after 1897, so they switched to the feather plume, and as also already said, it has no proper silver hallmarks...

~Cheryl