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ahwt Posts: 2377 Registered: Mar 2003	posted 05-28-2018 01:17 PM This is a small tea caddy spoon with the date mark for 1879 and the maker’s mark for Henry Holland. I am curious about it because it has the letter L and a four armed symbol impressed on either side of the maker’s mark. These are the type of marks I would expect to see on American silver, but not on English. Could these be simply a journeyman’s marks? Or some production code? IP: Logged
PhilO Posts: 166 Registered: Jul 2004	posted 05-29-2018 02:12 AM These are typical of journeymen's marks, or at least what we normally say are journeymen's marks; as there is no record of such marks it is not possible to be completely certain. The only strange feature here is that there are 2 different marks so it may be that one is, in fact, some sort of production code. Phil IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11573 Registered: Apr 93	posted 05-29-2018 07:03 AM Perhaps the journeyman and engraver? The L looks engraved. IP: Logged
ahwt Posts: 2377 Registered: Mar 2003	posted 05-29-2018 08:37 AM Thanks Scott and PhilO. IP: Logged
agleopar Posts: 850 Registered: Jun 2004	posted 06-04-2018 05:56 PM I wonder, that if these are journeyman marks, the four arm could be the spoon forgers and the L the engravers? If it was a big shop only making flatware this might have been the way to keep track of who made what. IP: Logged

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