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It's really a souvenir of Licerne. The bowl shows the Dying Lion of Lucerne (easy to look up). The spoon is black with tarnish, but I figure it's silver plate and polishing would remove whatever silver is there.

The spoon is about 4-1/4" long.

Hoping someone can tell me what the mark means.

 

Don't really understand that. As I read it, the first number says the plating is heavy, and the second number says how many grams of silver were used to plate some unspecified number of pieces. Maybe the letter indicates which batch?

The spoon weighs about 15g.

 

I sold a Rolex spoon a few years ago. Many of the hotels gave these out to guests. There is a specific spoon that was given to people who purchased Rolex Watches. It looked like this one from the 1930s.

 

From that site: "The markings on the backs of the spoons indicate silver content. B 100 12, this meant 100 grams of silver was used to plate 12 Normal size spoon spoons, or 8.33 grams of silver per spoon, since these are smaller, the amount of silver would be proportionally less."

Since this spoon is about half the size of a normal spoon, I'm guessing about 4 grams of silver.

Useful information. Thanks. Maybe enough to try polishing.

 

I could never identify the mark on this spoon.

 

Bucherer was better known than Rolex till the 1920s. these spoons were giveaways to potential buyers; today we'd say a marketing instrument to push the Rolex name in the right places or hotels to the filthy rich that still had their money.