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 A spoon marked DAVISON with odd shoulders
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Brent Posts: 1507 |
posted 04-15-2002 11:06 PM
  
 Here is a spoon with an unusual mark and form. Although otherwise rather nondescript, the spoon has shoulders of a style I have not seen before. Does anyone have other examples with shoulders shaped like this? As for the mark, there are a number of listed silversmiths named Davison, namely in New York and Virginia. I can't find this mark in any of my books, though, and I don't have the good reference books for New York and Virginia. Any ideas? Thanks! Brent
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Bill H Posts: 31 |
posted 04-16-2002 12:55 AM
This mark matches a photograph of one in Darling's New York State Silversmiths attributed to Peter I Davison (1795-1873) of Shereburne, NY. Very interesting shoulders. IP: Logged |
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FredZ Posts: 1070 |
posted 04-16-2002 08:28 AM
The mark found in the Darling book only shows the bottom half of Davison's mark. I would assume that it is not a common one and that the partial mark was the best that could be found..... until now! I too have never seen such shoulders before. Does anyone have any insight as to why shoulders on spoons became popular? Do they serve a purpose or are they only decorative? IP: Logged |
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Brent Posts: 1507 |
posted 04-16-2002 10:54 PM
Thank you both for the attribution. I need to get one of them there Darlings! Brent IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 08-23-2008 12:13 AM
This may be documented elsewhere, but Peter I Davison's son Charles E Davison who was born in about 1834 in New York was a jeweler in Sherburne, New York along with his father and on his own after his father's retirement sometime before 1870. IP: Logged |
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FWG Posts: 845 |
posted 08-23-2008 01:56 PM
I have and/or have seen several examples with this mark here in Central New York, all spoons, none others with that form of shoulders (or fins as some call 'em to differentiate from the other end of the handle). Best bet for getting Darling is to photocopy a library copy, as they're out of print and rather hard to find. As I've noted elsewhere before, there was at least one addendum mailed to subscribers later with additions and corrections, which you can also copy and cut up and paste in.... IP: Logged |
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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 08-23-2008 02:51 PM
I did a page up of the corrections a while ago: [This message has been edited by wev (edited 04-21-2010).] IP: Logged |
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