Featured 6 Spoon from the Second World War or before

Hi, greet to see this website !

With the family we want to estimate this spoon and above all, to know its origin its time.
This spoon comes from the family, it is my father's grandmother who gives it to my mother before her death.
My great-grandmother was a Jewish survivor from the Second World War.

Thank you

 

Pretty spoons, Welcome Clove.
The silver people will need close up pictures of the Mark's to be able to identify them.
Mikey

 

Those are beautiful. This is when you use full image.

 

Hi Clove! Welcome on board

Better to edit your post and click post all as full image to embed your pics very visible

Will need crisp close up of the marks too!!!

 

Ha! Sniped

 

French silverplate. The square punch on each spoon is the maker's mark. If they were solid silver of some fineness, the punch would be a diamond shape instead.

 

Further confirmation of being plated - the 10g mark tells you how much silver was used in the plating of a quantity of spoons.

EDIT - an article to read about "numbers on silver plate."

https://www.925-1000.com/a_platenumbers.html

 

Welcome, Clove.

 

lovely. I wonder about the length. with that coffee been at the end of the handle and the place of the marks inside the spoon bowl most probably French.

 

Good spotting, Fid!

 

@kyratango - shouldn't this be moved to the Silver forum?

I thought it was a hoof!

 

found them or at least near... but not sure if the link will work.
https://www.ebay.fr/itm/113721178331

 

In glass that vein pattern is ofter referred to as the Tree of Life.
With the coffee bean and vein - Coffee is the Life blood?

 

It sure is!

 

Seems a nice match

 

You are so nice for all of this react ! Thank you very much ladies and gentleman !

Yes well found @Sid ! i'm French

@kyratango It's full screen now thanks

Hi @AnyJewelry and @KikoBlueEyes

@Ineedhelp Thank you for the fullscreen of the mark !
Yes I think it's R.F or R.E (i have not a got quality with my phone sorry, if i have a better capture, i'll retry to send you)

@clutteredcloset49 you right ! very good thinking !
Until now, we thought it was vine leaves, it's better than that ! :O It's small spoon for coffee !

@Bakersgma What impress me to much is the hallmark, I didn't see this anywhere on internet do you have any idea from ? It looks like a four leaf clover

@Sid
I look on the website you found :
https://www.ebay.fr/itm/113721178331
I found another one too :
https://www.ebay.fr/itm/12-cuillere...550494?hash=item1cd52c8b1e:g:ZfAAAOSwSGtdKy0U
They are not like my spoon, are they copy or recent ? Or real
We never use and never clean our 6 spoon, they are more used and they have more fine detail

In any case Thank you all to much you are really great !
If you are other ideas about i'm always glad to see them ! Thanks <3

 

@Fid

 

Over the years, have seen many of these French coffee/mocha spoons, with their coffee bean tops, branch form stems and leaf bowls, by numerous different manufacturers, with an equal number of small variations in the designs, and they were often topped with an ornament for souvenir use. They're usually silverplate, but were occasionally made in silver, and they seem to have changed little over the most of the 20th century - might perhaps be able to date this set to specific window with a good shot of the initials (looks like a 4-leaf clover symbol to me), if identified, the operating years of the maker might be found too.


Here is another set, by another maker than the two shown previously: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Fr...e-Bean-Leaf-Pattern-12-pcs-Case-/283254497888




And a single, with bowl engraved as a souvenir of Brest, by yet another maker: https://www.ebay.com/itm/French-Sil...ee-Bean-Branch-Leaf-Brest-Italy-/150851003875




This one, topped by the Eiffel Tower, is in its original box: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/UNUSUAL-BOXED-SILVER-PLATED-FRENCH-COFFEE-BEAN-SPOON-/264498636529





This one with a Napoleon finial (oddly described as Lord Nelson): https://www.etsy.com/listing/642382...f=sr_gallery-1-9&organic_search_click=1&frs=1





This one, topped by the Luchon arms, is described as sterling, but has what appears to be an .800 Minerva-head, it's a bit more stylized design: https://www.etsy.com/sg-en/listing/470909222/french-vintage-sterling-silver-sugar




~Cheryl

 

Welcome Clove! Je suis Française aussi