posted 05-08-2012 06:24 PM            

We don't normally answer any questions until that has been done. However, since it seems likely that this is a family heirloom and thus not for sale, I can tell you that it probably (I say probably, because without photos this is a guess) is a Scottish spoon, made by William Byres of Banff, Scotland in the late 18th Century. He was working about 1778 - 1792. Are your grandparents of Scottish origin?

There is also a Banff in Canada, although it is unlikely to be from there - that is why photos are necessary, as styles change with time, and if from Canada, it would be much later, as that town was not there then.

posted 05-08-2012 07:33 PM            

Sorry about that it was late at night and I skipped over most of the yellow. I'm a dad of 2 kids, love fishing etc I live in a small country city in Australia. My grandparents had just recently passed away and I was given a heap of there silver ware. I was hoping to find out about it as much as I can as I was going to do a little story about it all and put them in a silky oak case I'm making to pass them on to the next lot of grand kids after me. I will try and work out how to post pictures very shortly. I'm rather new to the computer world. We moved here from a place that had no internet and I finally purchased a computer and started to explore the wide world web.

Thank you for your reply

posted 05-08-2012 10:07 PM            

You have some work to do on the image listings. Click on the pencil icon above the listing for this reply, and you can look at the way I did it. You cannot edit this post, but you can see the way it is typed.