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park1226

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iconnumber posted 01-09-2018 12:53 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for park1226     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I was given this piece of family silver as a Christmas gift. It is a modest teaspoon but I can not identify the hallmarks. There are two. One looks like a TM the other is perhaps an H with a script L. It is not marked coin or sterling. It is engraved with my great, great grandfathers initials and 1846. I have searched my McGrew book and other online sources. I hope Wev's Silversmith Geneology reappears soon! ,

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avalata

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iconnumber posted 01-16-2018 10:44 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for avalata     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hi,

The proportions of the bowl and the handle, and the style of the marks, seems to point to a Continental origin, perhaps in one of the pre-Germany states.

Best, Cliff

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park1226

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iconnumber posted 01-16-2018 11:42 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for park1226     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thank you. Your comments appear right on target. He was from Schleswig-Holstein and was born in 1846. We assume that this may have been a baptism gift. I will have to keep digging. The spoon does not have a City hallmark.

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Believe your second mark is '11L', indicating the lod/loth fineness (roughly 687/1000) - 11 lodig silver was very common in 19th century Danish silver, though it could be from elsewhere (Schleswig-Holstein is historically Danish and/or German)...

~Cheryl

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