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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 10307871, member: 111&quot;]Glad your spoons were returned to you!&nbsp; My father gave his grandfather&#039;s rifle to my oldest brother when he was a teenager, but he never took it when he left home, so my father gave it to me a decade later when I was a teenager, and it just stayed in a closet for at least 25 years until my bro was down visiting and he started talking about the 22 (I had no idea that he&#039;d been given it before me), but he was thrilled when I handed it to him.&nbsp; He cleaned it up, and later had it professionally restored - not too long ago, our cousin decided that it should be his since my father adopted my brothers (my Mom&#039;s boys) and he isn&#039;t &#039;blood&#039; - it&#039;s caused a rift between them, I&#039;m furious, and my brother is hurt (but he&#039;s keeping the rifle).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Should mention that your spoons aren&#039;t a pair, different designs, the one without Hanau pseudo-marks could easily have been made by a different manufacturer (with the &#039;Sterling&#039;&nbsp; stamp, was probably wholesaled to an American retailer), and the lady isn&#039;t Josephine, she may be Marie Antoinette, or just a pretty lady with a fan - but they&#039;re nice together...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.925-1000.com/Fgerman_hanau.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.925-1000.com/Fgerman_hanau.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.925-1000.com/Fgerman_hanau.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.925-1000.com/Fgerman_hanau_marks_01.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.925-1000.com/Fgerman_hanau_marks_01.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.925-1000.com/Fgerman_hanau_marks_01.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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