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G.MANN Posts: 17 |
posted 07-20-2001 06:11 PM
  
I purchased this serving spoon in the Portsmouth, NH area, and have been trying to identify it for some time. It appears to be Ca. 1830-50,Flint and Fales list the mark as"Tentative" : Daniel Booth Hempstead, New London,Ct, silversmithing 1820's to 1852.You have been very helpful in the past, any ideas?  IP: Logged |
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posted 07-20-2001 08:50 PM
An interesting puzzle and one that I have pondered as well; I have a number of pieces with the same mark. Belden does not show it, but gives [star H star] with a 'tentative' notation, the attribution given by John Marshall Phillips. The prefered mark shown is an incised D. B. HEMPSTED, which is almost certainly of later date; Hempsted is known to have been working by 1806 when it would have been quite unusual in that form, though certainly reasonable at the end of his long career in 1852. Buhler, in American Silver in the Yale University Art Gallery shows the Flynt and Fales mark on a c 1810-1820 tablespoon, similar in description to yours, adding the same disclaimer. Personally, I find the attribution reasonable. A single letter mark, while uncommon, was used by several makers, including Marcus Merriman ( wheat sheaf [M] wheat sheaf) and Abel Moulton ([star M star]), both of whom were working at roughly the same time as Hempsted and, in the case of Merriman, in the same area. All the pieces I have seen with either the star or leaf H mark have been in styles appropriate to work found in Connecticut c 1810-1830 (one of my pieces has a family inscription tied directly to the New London area). I am quite willing to give either mark to Hempsted until another maker is suggested. IP: Logged |
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