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CAB Posts: 2 |
posted 11-24-2004 09:35 PM
  
[01-1946] What a wonderful resource this is! I've researched this question (and a couple of others) and have found nothing at all on a Holden silver mark. Unfortunately I can't get my scanner to work so I can't post a picture. I've inherited the "family spoons" with a bit of history attached - something that I never credited with being the truth, but it may turn out to be. I received the spoons sight unseen, and was told that there were several Revere marked ones amongst them. Of course, there aren't any. So the long-winded question is does anyone have any information on a Holden mark, certainly from New England somewhere. If so I (and my whole family!) would be ever so grateful to know anything. I'm not living in the US any more and it is very difficult to find information on US silver marks abroad. Many thanks for any input! CAB IP: Logged |
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posted 11-24-2004 09:48 PM
I know of only two Holden silversmiths -- Eli, working in Philadelphia c 1840-1865 and John, working in Quincy MA c 1830-1860. Kane's Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths lists no Holden's, either as makers or patrons. We really need to see pictures of the piece and the mark. IP: Logged |
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posted 11-25-2004 05:34 AM
Wev, Thank you so much! That's brilliant! I've been searching for a Holden silversmith everywhere without any success. I'll see if I can get a picture of the spoon somewhere. But the date ties in with the style of the spoon which doesn't "feel" Colonial - it's a fiddleback, not coin-silver, and feels rather too chunky to be early. Another theory about the Revere connection bites the dust. You are very kind to have responded and I'm very grateful. Best, CAB IP: Logged |
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The family history is that the in the line "one if by land and two if by sea" an ancestor was one of the "two if..." Recently, whilst having my spoons valued for insurance purposes the valuer noticed that several were marked "Holden"...and that got me thinking...because Holden is the family name, they are (supposedly) Colonial silver so it is possible that my Holden could have been a friend of Revere? And actually could have been in that boat? 
It was the valuer who suggested it to me but as he was from the largest auction house in Dublin he didn't know much about American silver and said "American silver isn't worth much here; you would be better to have it valued in the US". Humph!