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iconnumber posted 01-27-2002 08:25 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I have a 13 1/2" ladle with stamped "W. Tuckey Genuine" on the top of what appears to be an Old Sheffield Silver Plate stem. The silver stem connects with silver rivets to a ribbed pattern pressed leather bowl having a silver disk on the bottom engraved with foliate initials. The handle appears to be baline, is ribbed lengthwise and is attached to the silver stem. I haven't been able to find a W. Tuckey in any of my OSP references. I am hoping someone out there recognizes this. I have pictures but no URL to attach.

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iconnumber posted 01-30-2002 06:57 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Scott Martin     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Please e-mail me pictures

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iconnumber posted 01-30-2002 02:49 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Scott Martin     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Here is the photo:

Does anyone have an idea?

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iconnumber posted 01-30-2002 08:46 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for wev     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
What an interesting piece! Haven't a clue as to the maker, but Tuckey was a longstanding family name in the Channel Islands, so perhaps that is a clue.

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I agree, a very neat piece.

One possibility that occurs to me is that it might be an American plater's mark. It is fairly well established from period advertisements that Americans were indeed making OSP and close plate, but very few marked examples have ever turned up. Perhaps Tuckey is listed somehwhere as an American coppersmith? Just a thought.

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iconnumber posted 02-11-2002 11:44 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Scott Martin     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The name Tuckey seemed to be from Australia so a fired off an e-mail to Wilson Tuckey who is Minister in the Commonwealth Government of Australia. This was the response:
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Dear Sir/Madam

I am responding to your email on behalf of the Hon Wilson Tuckey MP, who is a Minister in the Commonwealth Government of Australia.

Mr Tuckey does not know anything of the ladle pictured. He thinks members of the Tuckey family emigrated to Western Australia in the 1830's from Sussex, UK.

I have also spoken to the Tuckey's family historian in Perth who also knows nothing of the ladle. He commented there was a Captain James Hinkston Tuckey who made a bit of a name for himself in Ireland around 1810 - 1815 but apart from that, can't offer much further insight.

Yours sincerely

David Magill
(for Hon Wilson Tuckey MP)

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