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taloncrest Posts: 169 |
posted 02-20-2011 10:40 PM
  
[01-2908] This morning I went to the local flea market and found two Harlequin pattern serving pieces still sealed in their original packaging, which was marked Reed and Barton Silver Plate. They were the bonbon shovel with the rose handle, and the fork (lemon?) with the forget-me-not handle. They were tarnished so I took them from their packages and polished them once I got home. I now realize that one, the rose pattern bonbon shovel, is marked R&B Sterling. Was it mis-marked, or was it mis-packaged? It does not seem any more springy than the fork when flexed, so I'm leaning towards mis-stamped, but that possibility is scary. IP: Logged |
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agleopar Posts: 850 |
posted 02-21-2011 07:53 AM
My bet is mispackaged, to me how silver/coin/plate feel is very subjective because 2 identical spoons could have different hardness depending on how they were tempered/hardened. An acid test would tell best. Let us know when you find out - there might be more out there - good luck! IP: Logged |
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ahwt Posts: 2334 |
posted 02-22-2011 09:55 PM
Good work - I think you had a luckly find and that is fun. I wonder how many other patterns were made in both plate and sterling? IP: Logged |
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taloncrest Posts: 169 |
posted 02-24-2011 10:21 PM
Thanks, agleopar and ahwt! Mis-packaged does make more sense, as there is a valid legal reason to avoid mis-marking at any cost. I've owned two sets of these in silverplate at different times, but the silverplated version of the shovel was the first piece, a Christmas gift from the dear friend who started me on the way of antiques and silver. I later gave it, along with the other four pieces of the set acquired later, to a mutual friend who had very little silver and would appreciate the fact that one piece had come directly from him. I purchased a second set new in the '90s as a retirement gift for an employee who had always admired my shovel when I used it at board meetings. I'd noticed some of these listed as sterling on the big auction site over the years, but this is my first time to run into one in sterling in person. Both Reed and Barton and Oneida had a tendency to make patterns in both sterling and other metals. I remember a brief pang of disappointment (very brief!) when I thought I found a teaspoon in one of my stainless patterns (Dover) in a box of odd flatware, only to find it was the sterling version. IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 02-24-2011 11:11 PM
I'm intrigued by the thought of using a sugar shovel at board meetings. Did/do you set the conference table with silver? IP: Logged |
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taloncrest Posts: 169 |
posted 02-24-2011 11:49 PM
Polly, I never set the conference table, but I would usually have nuts, mints, and one or two types of cookies, and this would give me a good excuse to use some of my nice things. I'd usually use the shovel with the nuts. In fact, I used the new shovel at a board meeting today, together with an Egyptian plate that I found the same day at the same flea market. I used them to serve little goldfish type snack crackers. I used a c1890's sugar shovel for the nuts this time. I'd have posted the plate in the Egyptian silver thread, but it is not antique, just post WWII. IP: Logged |
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Polly Posts: 1970 |
posted 02-25-2011 10:01 AM
That sounds like a company I'd like to work for. IP: Logged |
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