Silver spoons lot #2

What are the scalloped spoons used for? Sugar? Something else?

Also, approx. age and value?

 

#4 looks to be plated. The 12 designated the "pennyweights" of silver used in plating.

#5 is by Gorham.

 

Ahh! I wondered about that 12. I wasn't sure if it was a reference to a pattern, like it might on a piece of china, or something else.

When going through the box, I quickly realized that a bunch of it marked "AA" or "A1", etc. was silver plated.

 

To go back to your OP - The spoons with the scalloped bowls are for sugar. The larger one with the holes in the bowl is probaly a "sugar sifter." The smaller one for olives.

 

I learned something new today. I had wrongly assumed that silver plated silverware was made by coating steel with silver. I have no idea what made me think that, but that is why I was confused that a magnet would not stick to it.

 

Never plated over steel. The older US plated wares had a base metal of an alloy called "german silver" (which contained no silver at all.) It was also called names like "white metal." By the time of WWI the name was changed by many makers to "nickel silver."

In Europe similar alloys are often called "alpacca."

A nice benefit of using this "white alloy" as the base is that as the plating started to wear down, the wear spots were not as obvious.

Some lower end lines of flatware were made completely of this alloy as a "silver substitute" and were not plated.

 

#7 says, I. Brilleman, btw. (I think)

 

#5 the Gorham spoon is in the Raphael pattern

 

Jeepers, that pattern sells for quite a bit more than the silver value. I've got a lot to learn.

Thanks! You rock!

 

#6 is by Fessenden, so far as I know it's not a named line pattern.
#7 is Whiting Mfg.'s 'Duke of York' pattern.
#8 is by F.S. Gilbert, don't believe they had any named line patterns, made mostly spoons and serving pieces.

~Cheryl

 

OK, you rock too!

On the replacements site, they call #6 "Old Rose".

 

Okay, good, not in the references I had handy, but they must have found it somewhere, will make note...

~Cheryl

 

#4 pattern is 'Persian', found with a number of differentmarks: https://www.sterlingflatwarefashions.com/SPPatterns/11SPPPersian.html

~Cheryl

 

Just want to say you have done a very nice job of photos and labeling.