Featured Spoon Kingdom of Holland?

This spoon seems to have been recreated somewhat often. I didn’t see any examples with the mark mine has. Others have modern Dutch sword marks and I think I’ve seen other marks. I assume it’s silver. I guess it could be a plate mark. The Kingdom of Holland used a 10 Penningen mark for .833 fineness in the early 19th century. Is that what I have on my mark? The Dutch used a crowned N date code in 1948 is that what I have? That wouldn’t explain the 10 though. Leaning towards the older explanation. Any ideas? I wish I could recall where it came from.

 

It looks a bit like there is a very worn mark above the visible mark on your spoon.

I found a brooch with the crown N10 mark and has the sword.

Lovely spoon.



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There should be a sword mark somewhere - the maker's mark shown was used by Gebr. Niekerk from 1970 to '98...

~Cheryl

 

I couldn’t see it in person but in the photo now that you mention it the sword probably was above the visible mark. I can see a faint outline of the left side of the sword I think.

Thanks for finding that example! It is a really handsome spoon.

 

Excellent! Thanks Cheryl. Most of the other examples I saw seemed newer so that fits in with the timeline of others. It may be right above the makers mark as Sayitslowly pointed out, just super faded.

 

Yes, it is the Gebr. Niekerk mark. The cartouche means it is one single mark, not two or three separate ones.

The Gebr. Niekerk were known for travelling around the Netherlands to collect old pieces and giving them a new life, for instance adding brooch backs to traditional forehead jewels. This was in the early 20th century, the time that most traditional Dutch costumes ceased to be worn. They saved a lot of beautiful old pieces that way.

They also made historic inspired and reproduction pieces. Looks like your spoon is one of those, a testament to Niekerk's sense of history.

 

Wow! Just looked at the price on the brooch that Say_it_slowly linked - someone lives in a fantasy world...





~Cheryl

 

Absolutely! Those are around 45 euros here in the Netherlands.

 

I think they had misplaced their decimal point. They seem to have changed it to £25 now.

 

Great that Gebr were preserving history in their own way. Sad that so much tradition, and that which made us unique is going by the wayside these days.

I was kind of grasping at straws with my mark sans the sword mark. I did know it being within a single lozenge was problematic towards that option. Just couldn’t figure out a good explanation of that being the only mark unless it was plated. A sword mark being totally worn off puts a bow on it.

 

Their name is Niekerk, gebr is short for 'gebroeders', brothers, the same as Bros.

A problem of every age, but even more so now.
Niekerk saw that beautiful traditional Dutch jewellery was sold for melt value, often because of conflicts over an inheritance.