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ahwt Posts: 2334 Registered: Mar 2003	posted 05-23-2005 05:49 PM The above picture shows what may be a journeyman's mark on a beaded pattern ladle. S.S. Cutler's mark is also on the ladle, but I think the little circle to the left is a journeyman's mark. I put an image of the beaded pattern on as I have never identified the actual maker of the ladle. The beaded pattern was very popular and my only source for patterns is Turner and he does not show this one. If anyone knows the manufacturer of this pattern we will know who Cutler was buying from. Cormany in his book on Alabama silver places Cutler in Florence, Alabama after his stay in Lexington, KY IP: Logged
ahwt Posts: 2334 Registered: Mar 2003	posted 05-25-2005 03:01 PM The pattern is a bead pattern by our friends at Wood and Hughes. It appears that Kentucky also used Wood and Hughes as their source for fine silver. A popular internet auction house has a saved search feature that allows one to search, on a continuing basis, key words. Here it took only two days of searching "bead" to receive an email that identified the pattern. IP: Logged
Fitzhugh Posts: 136 Registered: Jan 2002	posted 07-12-2019 05:31 PM The 1860 Census for Florence, Alabama enumerated silversmith Silas S. Cutler, born NY 1830, and wife Ophelia Stewart, born in Louisville, KY 1835. She was a d/o James & Pauline Stewart. I'm not certain this is the same silversmith working in Lexington, Kentucky, however. IP: Logged
wev Moderator Posts: 4121 Registered: Apr 99	posted 07-12-2019 07:53 PM Silas Strickland was born in Albany on 29 Sept 1829. His father, John Nathan, was a skilled musical instrument maker (both in silver and wood) and later a watchmaker. Silas is listed as a silversmith in the 1850 Albany census. He died in Florence on 27 June 1860. IP: Logged
wev Moderator Posts: 4121 Registered: Apr 99	posted 07-12-2019 08:08 PM I should add that I'd be very happy to have a good shot of his mark for my little project. IP: Logged
wev Moderator Posts: 4121 Registered: Apr 99	posted 07-12-2019 08:27 PM From the Lexington Observer & Reporter, 14 February 1855. [This message has been edited by wev (edited 07-12-2019).] IP: Logged
ahwt Posts: 2334 Registered: Mar 2003	posted 07-12-2019 10:39 PM I have not seen that ladle for some time, but I think I know where I put it. When I find it I can get a better picture of the mark. IP: Logged
ahwt Posts: 2334 Registered: Mar 2003	posted 07-13-2019 04:41 PM The ladle was where I thought it might be. This is a little better image, but photography is really not my thing. It appears Silas may have left Lexington sometime around 1855 when he sold his goods to a Mr. Goodloe. If he was born in 1829 he was only 26 at this time and only 31 when he died. It may be he moved to Florence, Alabama, but I have not seen any work by him in that city. IP: Logged

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