Featured Southern coin silver, biggest piece yet! Date?

Got my biggest piece of coin silver to date. I did paid up for it though but I had to have it. Weighs 180 grams and is made by Henry White from Fredericksburg, Virginia. 1788-1827. Is there a better more approximate way to date this piece based of off design? Any help is greatly appreciated!

 

Totally excited for you!

 

Congrats, Spartcom! I trust you'll be cleaning it up.

I don't think there's a way to narrow the date range down on the basis of shape/design. None of the designs of that period were patented and named.

 

Perhaps an historical records search by a genealogist could help. You have some initials.

 

I think once you have it cleaned we "MIGHT" be able to help a bit more on the marks.......but that's a maybe too.......you have HW in the rectangle with either a star or asterisk down to the left of the H, and "bb BB" just above the rectangle as well........in the last image.......lower down I think the same HW is showing as well......tipped down in opposite direction.....

Waaaaay back 'when' I used to have a small collection of coin silver......but you know me and silver.......HATE to polish it!!!

 

Beautiful item - looks like somebody already "Polished" it with a scouring pad - I'd leave it as is - unless you are really good at polishing all them scratches out.

 

I'll polish it to remove the tarnish and may inquire about having the bowl fixed. Kind of cool the bowl is worn right where it is, shows that it was used a lot throughout time.

 

@spartcom5 , you may have seen this already but thought I'd post a link to information about Henry White. It does include a photo of one of his spoons that is more closely dated. But yours looks like it might be a ladle instead? Or a large soup spoon?

http://www.kenmore.org/collections/metals/silver_spoon.html