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park1226 Posts: 102 |
posted 12-10-2014 09:11 AM
  
I bought a box lot recently to get pieces for our collection. It contained 6 extraneous simple fiddle handled coin silver tablespoons. Three of the spoons have a hallmark I can not identify. Curiosity has gotten the best of me. It is a D between two federal eagles. I mistook it for the Willard Hawley mark which has two stars instead of eagles. Is this a pseudo hallmark from some wholesaler? There are no other markings on the spoon. The lot also included 3 matching spoons from Speer & Cosper Chicago. Could this D double eagle mark be from an Illinois maker? Thanks in advance for your assistance.  IP: Logged |
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ahwt Posts: 2334 |
posted 12-10-2014 11:00 AM
McGrew has this mark listed as “unidentified up-state New York.” It has been found on silver from M.C. Haight, Sunderlin and Weaver, Thomson and King, A.B. Vancott, and Wendell and Hyman. McGrew notes that some of the journeyman marks on this silver are the same as found on Willard and Hawley and Bunnell silver. In a separate entry for Willard and Hawley McGrew shows a star, D, eagle mark where the D appears to be the same as the D in your silver. [This message has been edited by ahwt (edited 12-10-2014).] IP: Logged |
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park1226 Posts: 102 |
posted 12-10-2014 03:30 PM
Thanks AHWT. I did notice this particular style of D being common to several hallmarks I found online: eagle D Eagle; eagle D star: and star D star. Perhaps they relate chronologically to the ebb and flow of partnerships between Willard, Hawley, and Bunnel. IP: Logged |
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ahwt Posts: 2334 |
posted 12-10-2014 05:44 PM
That is a good point. The D is rather distinctive and the rest may have just changed through the years. I wonder if the manufacturers' ever thought of the interest these marks would have some 200 years later. IP: Logged |
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