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Hi All,
I went to a sale this morning and bought some pieces and need help with them - 2 are hallmarked silver, 1 looks like it says silver and the other one I don't know. I haven't polished any of the items yet. I'll break this up over 2 posts
any information appreciated.
thanks for looking
Here is a group shot of what I bought A flask, stamp box, cool sifter spoon thing and a wine taster.


#1 is the sifter spoon 3 5/8"L Webster and Co USA. I've never seen one of these before, I thought it was kind of neat. Trying to determine the age and if there is a name for this type of spoon. It looks like something is printed on the handle but looking at it with a loupe I still can't make out what it says.


#2 is the wine taster, 3 1/4"diameter. Snake handle, or maybe a serpent? Only marks are on the base, very hard to get a photo of. Looking with a loupe I can make out JG, not sure what is on top of those letters and then #4

 

#4 is the stamp box, hallmarks are William Neale Chester 1901. The inside looks like it has gold wash but is pretty dirty - can I polish this with Simichrome?




#4 is the flask. Marks on the base are hard to read - initials NC and something, then a mark that I have no idea what it is, Letter F and then it looks like word Silver. I thought maybe I could figure out the makers mark but not finding anything
engraved on the side with his name and K.O.Y.L.I. (King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry). I can find information on him, discharged in 1963. Hoping to figure out the marks and if this is silver

 

thanks Dave, I've never used Ammonia for polishing, I'll give it a try I did use if for taking crusted salt out a pair of sterling open salts that had gold wash inside, did an amazing job of removing all the salt and the gold wash looked as good as the day it was made.

 

lol, you are probably right I've got a big jug that I bought for the pieces mentioned above, haven't used it since so I've got lots.

 

nice haul CX.......... good eye .....the spoon is cute !!!

 

The Webster piece is a salt shaker spoon - somewhere in the back of my mind, think there's one shown in a catalog reprint at the back of Rainwater's 'American Spoons', but my copy is not here with me...

~Cheryl

 

The tastevin would be French silverplate. The flask is Indian Colonial - Hamilton & Co.: https://www.925-1000.com/ix_HamiltonCo.html

~Cheryl

 

thanks komokwa

Wonderful, a salt shaker spoon, thank-you Cheryl

Wow, I would never have figured out Hamilton & Co for the flask marks, thank-you very much Looks like the F could be 1942 or 1967.
What mark indicates French and SP for the tastevin? The #4? Not doubting you, just trying to learn

 

French silverplate marks are square or rectangular in shape to distinguish them from the solid silver lozenge shape maker's marks, and the '4', which probably has an obscured 'g', indicates 4 grams of silver used to plate the piece. I like the snake-handled ones, seem to recall they originated in a certain region...

~Cheryl

 

Love that stamp box! Good eye, @cxgirl

 

great information, thank-you Cheryl

thank-you scoutshouse

 

Oooh they are all BEAUTIFUL! Great haul great eye, lovely pieces cxgirl!

 

Gorgeous, cx!