Spoon 2 tryin again

Okay heres my second go around. This time i think i will have better luck! I got a photo sizer app. I cant tell the difference in before and after but i think youll be able to at least view them. Help me find the 411 on this spoon please!

 

Looks like turn of century citrus spoon.

 

Might be Holmes and Edwards Waldo, "Rialto"
Is it gold color or is that your picture.

Found this.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HOLMES-amp-...e-Waldo-Round-Soup-Spoon-RIALTO-/371493917300

 

If my memory is correct Holmes and Edwards produced gold plated flatware from 1850 (?) -1899. Your type of spoon could be dated circa 1894.

 

Holmes & Edwards was taken over by International Silver in 1898. Their name was still used up into the 1960s. Here is that Rialto pattern on the replacements.com site. The pattern is listed with International Silver patterns. Scroll on down the page to the section showing pieces not in stock. There is the "Fruit/Orange Spoon" like this one. Click on the pic for a larger pic and a little more info:

http://www.replacements.com/webquote/insria.htm

--- Susan

 

It's not gold-plated, it's 'gold aluminum', an alloy of aluminum and copper - the metal was provided to Holmes & Edwards by the Waldo Foundry, would date between 1894 and Waldo's closure early in the 1900s...

~Cheryl

 

LOL - please read - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold-aluminium_intermetallic

As I can remember there flat wear is silver, plated with GOLD!

Gold melts around 2600 degrees and aluminum melts at 1200 (F) no way to bind them as the aluminum would actually boil away as you are trying to melt the gold!! They would not combine!

 

Sorry, Rayo, it is absolutely not plated with gold. I have a piece around here somewhere, but most likely in a box up in the "attic."

 

Please go back and read all of my post - the metal was an alloy of aluminum and copper, called 'gold aluminum', this information was well-documented in period advertisements and trade journals.

Perhaps you can provide a source for your claims of their gold-plated production during the time frame you mention (which is way off in regards to their founding and end of production in general)...

~Cheryl

 

and there is no melting of gold in the plating process

 

Pile on - I said IF my memory is correct!! I got run over by 2 cars in my teens so memory is only what I can remember!! I try my best to recall antique situations but may be wrong - I just add a situation that may or may NOT be right - up to you guys to believe it or research it to make me wrong!!