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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 01-27-2006 12:53 PM
  
I am slowly going through my pieces and photographing marks. Here are two I've not identified. Any ideas? On a generic 9 1/4" fiddleback serving spoon c 1830 or so. On a very light gauge 9" fiddleback serving spoon with a very tiny pointed shoulder IP: Logged |
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ahwt Posts: 2334 |
posted 01-29-2006 10:15 PM
The bust-W-star is attributed to Wheeler, Brooks & Co. from Livonia, NY by McGRew with a reference given as Cutten's "The Silversmiths, Watchmakers and Jewelers of the State of New York Outside New York City. It is stated that this mark is apparently a retailer's mark, but the Wheeler firm is also listed as a manufacturer of silver. IP: Logged |
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ahwt Posts: 2334 |
posted 01-29-2006 10:22 PM
C&N is listed by Robert Alan Green in his book Marks of American Silversmiths as unidentified. Not much help. IP: Logged |
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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 01-29-2006 10:28 PM
Yes, the C&N is a real poser. I am rather dubious of the McGrew attribution. Livonia was a rural agricultural backwater; its population in 1860 numered only 480, including outlying farms. It had a single manufacturing concern worth noting, that making iron plows and grist stones. There is no mention, except as town jewelers of Wheelers & Brooks. Darling does not show this mark, only the full names with an unidentified S & H. Does McGrew give any actual evidence for the statement? [This message has been edited by wev (edited 01-29-2006).] IP: Logged |
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ahwt Posts: 2334 |
posted 01-29-2006 10:33 PM
No the only reference is the book cited. One of the marks McGrew has a picture of and the other one is in Soeffing's collection. The working date is given a c1835. IP: Logged |
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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 01-29-2006 10:42 PM
Good enough reasons to put it down as unproved. Thank you for the look-up, at any rate. IP: Logged |
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