Featured Pennies on the dollar silver fork

At this pace it will take me many lifetimes to eclipse Nates bargain silver hoard but another piece has been added. A lone silver fork. In a dust cloth wrap full of plate. Missed by a veteran estate sale runner and every other shopper in the 6 hours before me. Sometimes you feel like it’s pointless to look in these piles because surely someone else would have gotten it if it were there. Yet again that’s not the case though. 47g for probably $0.20 or so. Guessing the poorly struck mark contributed but it shone like a diamond amongst the plate. Mostly just laziness missed this one. I love the pattern, Dominick & Haff, not sure what it’s called.

 

Is that an Optical distortion or are those tines REALLY THAT LOOOOONG!! WOW!!!

 

I've got several older pieces of European silverplate tableware...I love the huge forks! They make our (US) patterns almost look like cocktail forks by comparison.

 

Admittedly garbled mark, but even with that I am not seeing a D&H mark. I looked through 3 different pattern resources expecting at least 1 to identify this design and came up empty. Patented in the 20s it should show up somewhere.

BTW, Aqui, there are dinner forks with "long tines" in some of the better US maker's patterns.

 

elegant.....I would eat with that !

 

I love the love the narrow tapered end and long tines. Even though it’s a solo piece I think I am going to eat with it. It feels good in the hand.

 

Thanks for checking for the pattern! You would expect it to show up. I have nothing invested in it being D&H. I thought I could even see the top of the diamond portion of their mark on the end though. If it’s not theirs is there one you know if that looks very similar? The mark on the fork is definitely jenky enough that it could be something else.

 

GAVE it a go with most of what I have to work with, as some of you others do also! AND it's STILL pretty unreadable as far as deciphering.....with or without the color, sharpening, enlarging, de-noise, etc!!! When you zoom in, don't know if that's 2 larger and smaller C's or D's, before what Looks like 'ST and a mashed G, then who knows what before a mashed 'N' then maybe an 'l' with some minuscule letters in it......before the PA maybe T and 1920????



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If it’s not Sterling Pat 1920 I’ll be a monkeys uncle! It’s the other part of the mark on the left was more in question. Your efforts are appreciated, as they always are!!!

 

Our preferred phrase was 'like a diamond inna goats a*s'...hard to miss, if y'know anything about goats an' their highly visible vent.

 

Not much, anymore...but a few years ago I was often seen at various family feeds an' potluck suppers with one of these prominently sticking up outta my shirt pocket, as an indicator of my advanced state of preparedness for feeding my face for free. I had no shame...an' still don't, according to some sources!

 

I’m glad to say I don’t! Lol. As valuable as I’m sure that knowledge is.

 

Well, y'really don't know what you're missin'!

 

Nice piece I'm like you, pick up single pieces of sterling, after awhile all those lone pieces add up

 

Lovely! I never get tired of CHEAP silver. And honestly the single pieces give me nearly the same thrill of the big purchases.

 

They do add up! Not all got for nothing certainly but all got for a good deal under melt, I’ve amassed quite the stash. Unfortunately it’s 90% too good or too old to stomach melting. So even if silver went to the moon I’d have trouble cashing out. Even though that’s kind of supposed to be the idea I guess. I ran into an old dealer who almost gets by on selling silver bought when prices were very low and deals were very good on top of that. He just sells a pile every time he needs cash and apparently has a big pile from which to draw.

 

It’s been a while since I’ve had a big score. The little ones do the trick nicely in between if nothing else!

 

Just ran into this mark. Maybe it’s the one in question. Similar enough to D&H but would explain why you didn’t find the pattern in their output. I’ve seen it but can’t recall who it belongs to and can’t make it out in the photo.

 

Graff, Washbourne andDunn

https://www.925-1000.com/americansilver_G3.html

 

Hmm. Maybe wishful thinking on my part after looking at it in better detail in your link.