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FWG Posts: 845 |
posted 02-21-2009 06:54 PM
  
I know I haven't been posting much lately, just working way too much, but I picked this up today and decided not to just add it to the "post when I have time" pile because of the nice conjunction of example and available information. The spoon is an 8-3/4 inch-long tablespoon with a pointed-tipt handle, nice heavy construction. It is marked coin in addition to the retailers' mark. While I didn't find an identification in any reference at hand, I did turn up an advertisement in Google books, from an 1874 publication The Good Old Times in Mclean County, Illinois: Lots of good information there. It's amazing the kinds of stuff becoming available online through scanned books! IP: Logged |
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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 02-21-2009 07:56 PM
The senior member was Augustus Bissell Gllett(e). Mr. Case was probably a cousin or something, as the two surname lines cross over each other numerous times in the Windsor/Simsbury area where Augustus hailed from. I can't add more, as my computer crashed and I am without my normal resources until next week. IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 02-21-2009 09:55 PM
The other gentleman would be Myron F Case who was about a generation younger than August, so possibbly a nephew. August was a jeweler and Myron started out at an early age as a peddlar. I do find an 1890 Indiana marriage record for an August B Gillette whose mother was a Case. This was possibly a subsequent marriage for the August B Gillett in this thread. [This message has been edited by bascall (edited 02-22-2009).] IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 02-22-2009 03:43 PM
The E B Steere in the earlier partnership was Elisha B Steere who is listed in the U S Federal Census for Bloomington, Illinois as a jeweler and born in Rhode Island in about 1823. IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 02-23-2009 01:17 AM
There was a lot of four spoons that finished last night on the usual online auction site. They were labeled as coin; two were; and of the other two, one was probably nickel silver, and the other was late Georgian silver. The interesting thing about the lot was that one of the coin pieces was a nice sugar shell that had a roman letter style incised mark for A. B. Gillett. [This message has been edited by bascall (edited 02-23-2009).] IP: Logged |
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FWG Posts: 845 |
posted 02-24-2009 12:36 PM
That latter is the mark recorded in the Indiana book, as I recall. IP: Logged |
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